However , other statements appear to contradict elements of the Kono Statement and the Prime Minister’s letters. His emphasis on one component of the comfort woman system , recruitment , has the effect of minimizing the Japanese military’s deep role in other aspects of the system (transport , establishment and administration of comfort station , and control of the woman at the comfort station). The military may not have directly carried out the majority of recruitment, especially in recruitment goes against the testimony former comfort to Japanese government researchers who compiled the 1992-1993 government report and the testimony of forced recruitment by nearly 200 former comfort women from different Asian countries and the Netherlands of the 400 plus testimonies cited in Yuki Tanaka’s book, Japan’s Comfort Women.