It isn't a foreigner that brought these documents to light, but a Japanese person.
His research is not only about Japan.In one document dated March 13, 1946, and unearthed last year by Kanto Gakuin University historian Hirofumi Hayashi, Dutch prosecutors quote a Navy employee as saying women in occupied Indonesia were rounded up, accused of fraternizing with Japanese and abused as "a pretext to putting them in a brothel."
[Summary] ﾂ"A Historical Study of the US Military's Policy toward Prostitutionﾂ"
in The Journal of The Association for Research on the Impact of War and Military Bases on Women's Human Rights, No.7, March 2005. HAYASHI, Hirofumi
[This is a summary of my article in Japanese.]ﾂ ﾂ ﾂ
窶氾鯛?敘ｽﾅｽjﾂ「ﾆ但ﾆ陳?椎?ﾆ谷ﾅ坦窶堙個青ｫ窶佚篠催ｴ窶堙娯?氾ｰﾅｽjﾂ」 ﾂ『ﾂ鞘?板青ｫﾂ・ﾂ静ｭ窶侏?・ﾂ人ﾅ陳?ﾂ』窶佚ｦ窶啖ﾂ坂??ﾂ
The Sexual violence and pro-prostitution attitude of the US military have been severely criticized in Japan and other countries. Several articles have recently been devoted to the study of the US military's pro-prostitution policy in Japan during the US occupation and in the 1950s. These studies demonstrate that the US military protected and even encouraged prostitution for their soldiers. However, only few attempts have so far been made at the historical survey of the policy toward prostitution of the US military, including the military authorities in Washington DC and expeditionary forces stationed at various parts of the world. The purpose of this paper is to examine the US military's policy toward prostitution from the beginning of the 20th century, when the US acquired overseas territories such as Guam, the Philippines and so on, to the 1950s. The War Department adopted the policy of suppressing prostitution in the early 1910s, partly because it was influenced by the progressivism in those days, but mainly because it was afraid of the spread of venereal diseases. Although this policy has been maintained for a long time, it began to waver during the Second World War because of the development of an infallible remedy for venereal diseases. Since venereal diseases came to be easily cured, the policy virtually began to be relaxed abroad while it was still maintained for public principle in order not to be blamed at home. Briefly stated, the US policy has been different from that of Japan and European countries that officially regulated prostitution.
Now, I can imagine an American shouting, "Do not offend my country!"His research is not only about Japan.
I think it is about the time for mainly Koreans to know they are used by the Japanese liberals.Hiroyuki, could you answer why you think that a Japanese person is bringing this material to the forefront now?
What is your opinion about that?
Hiroyuki, could you answer why you think that a Japanese person is bringing this material to the forefront now?
His opinion is not the Japanese general will.
His research is not only about Japan.
I don't think anyone is trying to deny that US soldiers used japanese prostitutes during and after occupation.
Paradoxically the recruitment of prostitutes were organised in order to protect the Japanese women.
A GROUP of Japanese MPs have placed a full-page advertisement in The Washington Post that denies Japan's military forced up to 200,000 women into sexual slavery during World War II.
Good question! 800-900 of those GI babies are buried in the Negishi Foreign Cemetery.One thing I'd like to look into is what happened to these children born from US fathers. Can't say I've met too many people in their 50s or 60s here in Japan who look mixed. Wonder where they are?
Good question! 800-900 of those GI babies are buried in the Negishi Foreign Cemetery.
My past message was unfairly deleted just because I posted a piece of hard evidence stating that the American soldiers raped more than 1000 Japanese women in their Japan occupation era, and as a result the brothels were built to prevent them to committed the crime.
It's a pity that one who deleted my message are trying to hide the fact to justify his/her own position, which is the same way the Allies had been doing after the WWII.