Papers detail Japan’s wartime scandal
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Documents detailing the Japanese government’s role in forcing women to work as wartime sex slaves have dealt a crushing blow to politicians seeking to deny Japan played a state role and that the “comfort women” were “transported by private businessmen.”
The 32 documents released by the Jilin Provincial Archives highlight the Japanese government and military’s role in forcing women to be used as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers.
According to documents dating from March 27 to April 19, 1945, the Anshan branch of the then Japanese Central Bank of Manchou transferred money to Japanese troops under the name “public funds for the military’s use to buy comfort women.”
In a Japanese military “report on the situation of Nanjing and its surrounding areas,” the document records seven Japanese “comfort stations” in nine places in the Nanjing region.
The report also records the number of Japanese soldiers stationed there, the number of comfort women, the number of soldiers each comfort woman had to receive, and how often the comfort stations were used. One comfort woman would serve between 71 and 267 Japanese soldiers in a 10-day period.
Documents buried by retreating troops were dug up in 1950 in Jilin Province and last year the provincial archives began to have them translated.
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