How bad were the IJA raping incindents in China ?
Although the originator only noted in passing, it appears that one major concern for Jim83 when he raised the question was;
Jim83 said:
why there are so many rape hapen while japan invade china ?
Needless to say, the topic, involing international law, human rights, and women's rights, must have been dealth with elsewhere, and it is also understood that war areas often see many sexual assaualts such as rape. But does anyone know how severe the rapes were involving Imperial Japanese Army of civilians in China ? Is there a comparison of IJA statistics to world statistics or those in other wars not involving IJA ? I think this was one major phenomenon that Jim83 was trying to understand. The time frame and place would include the following.
1) Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905 Dalian, Lushun, Mukden
2) Manchu Invasion 1931-1932 Manchuria
3) Sino-Japanese War 1937-1945 China.
Or could it be argued that due to IJA's well know reliance on systematic prostitution houses filled with girls and women harvested from mainland China, Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, and other occupied regions, the rape incidents of IJA was less that world average ? It would be only natural to expect less rapes compared to those invading forces not employing institutional prostitution, wouldn't it ?
But if the libidinal drive, or aggressive psychology, involved in sexual assautls had only little/partial correlation to simple sexual drive, but had more to do with culture, values, or some personality trait (this seems to be what the originator was guessing), could it be that due to the organized prostitution, there were more rapes committed by IJA by loosening the inhibition ? What evidence exists to support one or the other ?
As can be seen in mind control Imerial Japan's gov't/IJA High Command was excercising over officers and privates such as evidenced in the 100-man-killing drive, could there have been similar competitions among IJA personnel to engage in raping competitions, either officially encouraged, endorsed, or motivated by analogy to the killing competitions ? It is well established that a fair portion of rape victims involving IJA were murdered to evade the consequences. Officially rapists in IJA were subject to discipline, yet it is also known that most, although caught after the act, went unpunished, or hushed over by IJA.
If my apporach is misguided, then what alternative method could best analyze and help understand IJA's raping of Chinese civilians ?