Comfort Stations Japan

According to various regulations comfort stations were open for long time from 9 00.

Comfort stations japan. There she became one of the tens of thousands of comfort women. Several japanese military officers were convicted for having forced 35 dutch women involved in the case into comfort stations. Known as comfort women their story is an often understated tragedy of the war that continues to strike debate.

During world war ii the japanese established military brothels in the countries they occupied. Military correspondence within the imperial japanese army shows that there were a number of the aims for facilitating comfort stations. The japanese government had an interest in keeping soldiers healthy and wanted sexual services under controlled conditions and the women were regularly tested for sexually transmitted diseases and infections.

To reduce or prevent rape crimes by japanese army personnel in an effort to prevent a worsening of anti japanese sentiment to reduce venereal diseases among japanese troops and to prevent leakage of military secrets by civilians who were in contact with japanese officers. There were such regulations as that of morikawa unit stationed in huarongzen regulating soldier time from 10 00 to 18 00 noncommissioned officer time from 19 00 to 21 00. The issue only began to emerge in korea only in the late 1980s.

The government in 1993 did. Comfort stations or state sanctioned supported and operated brothels existed in japan the philippines china indonesia hong kong thailand and elsewhere. The women in these comfort stations were forced into sexual enslavement and moved around the region as japanese aggression increased.

The women typically lived in harsh conditions where they were subjected to continual rapes and were beaten or murdered if they resisted. Since prostitution was legal in japan at the time the first comfort stations were thought to contain volunteer prostitutes meant to keep the troops entertained. The first comfort stations were set up in 1932 in barracks around continental china then being occupied by japan.

Comfort stations were also maintained within japan and korea. According to military documents private agents first opened brothels for officers and men stationed in manchuria around the time of the manchurian incident in 1931. Left soldiers waiting their order in front of a comfort station.