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Post by Admin on Aug 20, 2015 1:28:22 GMT
 This file is the "Investigation Report (the Note) Concerning the Restoration of Local Public Order by Nanjing Military Police" submitted by Shigeru Oki, Commander of the Japanese Military Police Brigade for Central China, on 19 February of the thirteenth year of Showa (1938), which summarizes the situation of military "comfort facilities" on 1-10 February 1938 in Nanjing and the cities and counties in its surrounding area, including the number of Japanese troops and "comfort women", the number of soldiers per "comfort woman", the composition of the "comfort women", the number of soldiers using "comfort stations" within a ten-day period and so on in Nanjing, Xiaguan, Jurong, Zhenjiang, Jintan, Changzhou, Danyang, Wuhu and Ningguo. According to the archives, the Japanese equipped their aggression forces with "comfort women" in proportion to the soldiers; 25,000 Japanese troops were stationed in Nanjing then, and 141 "comfort women" were equipped, or one "comfort woman" for 178 soldiers.  Historical documents released by China's State Archives Administration (SAA) show that Japanese authorities planned and directly controlled the comfort system which employed women in China and other countries during World War II.  The SAA released a series of documents and other archived material originating from the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in the Manchuria region of northeast China and the collaborationist government of Wang Jingwei in Nanjing during the period from 1938 through 1945.  The latest documents include permissions given by the Japanese army in Shanghai to set up "comfort stations" in Shanghai's Pudong area. Phone transcripts from the Anshan Branch of the "Central Bank of Manchuria" in 1945 showed Japanese Army Unit 7990 used military money for costs associated with "comfort women." Amounts as high as 532,000 yen were approved by the Kwantung Army headquarters. The transactions were clearly recorded in the archives.   |
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Post by Admin on Aug 21, 2015 2:18:11 GMT
According to archives formed by the puppet Manchukuo government and the puppet Wang Jingwei Regime, which are kept in China, during the Japanese war of aggression against China, residential homes were forcefully seized to set up comfort stations under the Manchukuo and Wang Jingwei regimes, which were supported by Japanese Army. Expenses related to the stations came from military spending. This indicates that the comfort women system was under the direct control of the Japanese Government and Japanese Army.  Materials related to the permission given by the Japanese army, police and military police in Shanghai to the pro-Japanese elements in February 1939 and January 1940 to set up “comfort stations” in Shanghai’s Pudong area.  A document, by merchant Feng Zhaorong on 28 July 1938, related to establishing merchant and civilian comfort stations, following the example of Japanese military comfort stations.  Senior Police News by the Sixth Gendarmerie Regiment of the puppet Manchukuo government on 30 June 1944 recorded that the “obvious tendency of early marriage occurred in Korea because of the recruitment of single women as nurses and comfort women.”  In 1945 the phone transcripts of Anshan Branch of Central Bank of Manchuria showed that the Japanese Army Unit 7990 used military money for costs associated with comfort women. The number was as big as 532 000 yen and approval from Kwantung Army headquarters was clearly recorded in the archives. |
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Post by Admin on Aug 23, 2015 1:24:02 GMT
 In the archives of the Shanghai International Settlement Police Department, there were the police station interrogation records and the arraignment awarded by the Shanghai District Court.  In April 1938, a group of Chinese criminal gangs lured and trafficked Chinese women to hotels in Hongkou District and then sold them to the Japanese Army to serve as comfort women.  Four of the criminals were sentenced by the courts and two of the main criminals behind the trafficking of women hid in the area occupied by the Japanese Army, so they were not arrested.  |
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Post by Admin on Aug 25, 2015 1:22:37 GMT
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