” On the opposite side , the statements by the Abe government, including the March 16 , 2007 , Cabinet statement and spokesmen for the the Committee to Consider Japan’s Future Historical Education that there is no evidence of coercion seem to reject such testimory of former comfort women . The Abe government and the Committee to Consider Japan’s Future Historical Education seem to base their position largely on the situation in Korea where it appears that the majority of the recruitment of comfort women seemed to have been done by civilian recruiters who used deception and pressure on families rather than physical coercion – although some former comfort women claim to have been physically abducted. Moreover , the contention that there is no evidence of forcible , coerced recruitment seems to either ignore or be a rejection of the finding of the Dutch War Crimes Tribunals’findings and verdicts (including three death penalties) against seven Japanese army officers and four civilian employees of the army for coerced prostitution and rape of Dutch and other women in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia ) . This raises the potentially very important question of whether the Abe government is repudiaton of Article 11 of the 1951 Treaty of Peace between the Allied powers and Japan. Article 11 states : “ Japan accepts the judgment of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and of other Allied War Crimes Courts both within and outside Japan … ”