Comfort women reveals the Japanese Military Sexual Slavery

War conflict began in Asia a few years before the fighting began in Europe, after Japan invaded China in 1931 long before World War II began in Europe on 1 September 1939-14 August 1945. Dated March 1, 1931 Japan appointed Henry Pu Yi king in Manchukuo, a puppet state in Manchuria. In 1937 war began when Japan forced China to take.

In 1936 the Japanese army occupied the city of Shanghai has started moving towards the city of Nanjing which is about 360 km from Shanghai. The Japanese army who were there totaling about 135,000 military personnel.
Therefore continue to make war Japanese soldiers began to run out of food supplies. Recognizing this situation the Japanese military headquarters to a new strategy by seeking food from the enemy. This means that Japanese troops should begin to spoil people's homes to obtain food as a means of survival.

This Japanese military actions angered the Chinese people, in a pinch against the Chinese people start using in any way. The Chinese action is of course create new problems for the Japanese military who are doing the colonization effort. As a result, the Japanese army issued orders, "Kill the Chinese were seen in front of you!"

While this is still a lot of people think that everything in a war situation can occur suddenly without a plan. Including the events that befall bitter ratusa thousands of Asian women and Belada in practice the system of sexual slavery under the name Comfort women. Comfort women justified the practice of an unplanned event in the Asia-Pacific war? Comfort women justify a profession of prostitution who receives wages for his sexual services to Japanese military.


The practice of this command the Japanese soldiers began to kill the Chinese people regardless of civilian or military groups. Heinous murder committed without strategy resulted in many Japanese soldiers and damaged mentally insane. The Japanese soldier was not only genocide, they also began to brutally rape all the women of China are seen on the streets

As a result the majority of Japanese military personnel had a venereal disease caused by the brutal rape of Chinese women. This resulted in the Japanese military in China weakened. This situation alarmed the military leaders in Tokyo. So send a doctor named Aso Tetsuo to investigate the cause of the weakening of military power in China.

Shortly after the investigation took place Tetsuo Aso issued a recommendation to the Japanese military headquarters soon build a facility specifically prostitution of military personnel who directly controlled the military. This historic event contained in a book called Karyubyo no Sekkyokuteki Yobaho (Precautinary Positive Measure of Sexual Disease) in 1939. Tetsuo Aso said the incident in his article he titled Shanghai kara Shanghai (Shanghai to Shanghai).

World's First Prototype Ianjo

Ianjo formation (Japanese military brothels) that provide sexual services to Japanese soldiers and civilians began in 1932, after a remarkable Japanese military atrocities against the people of China in Shanghai. Nearly a decade before the widespread use of the terms were euphemistically and a common symptom in all areas of Japan in the Asia Pacific region towards the end of World War II.

Japanese authorities had to consider the moral and military discipline. Entertainment center plans were first introduced in 1932 under the auspices of the Japanese military. This can be evidenced by the handwritten one campaign commander Lieutenant General Okamura Yasuji Shanghai, who admitted in his diary that he became the first proposal maker for military Ianjo

Comfort women


Comfort women (sex slaves) are the first people of North Korea from the island of Kyushu in Japan at the request of a military ruler who is sent by the Governor of Nagasaki Prefecture. The rationale behind the establishment of a formal system development palayanan Ianjo is sexual. Therefore need to be monitored and controlled to reduce the number of reported rape of the places that a Japanese military base.

In the hiring process involves not only military but also the Department of the Interior in charge of the governor and the police who later played a role in cooperation with the military to recruit. Shanghai uses a special branch linkages among traders.

To obtain as many women to serve the sexual needs miters at the end of 1937 women who were forced to work in Ianjo-Ianjo region located between Shanghai and Nanking are managed directly by the Japanese military. Ianjo is a model for Ianjo-Ianjo next. Therefore Ianjo development continues to experience growth managers do not always be the responsibility of the military. Most of the manager is the civilians who were given the rank of paramilitaries. However, the military remained responsible for the transportation and public oversight Ianjo-Ianjo include aspects of health.

As the war continued and the number of Japanese troops based in various regions of Asia-Pacific region continues to increase. Therefore, the demand for military Comfort women is also increasing. So that new ways to employ these women were created. This involves the increased use of fraudulent means and violence in many parts of East Asia (especially Korea which has been colonized Japan in 1910).



3 This type of recruitment can be identified, among others, the women themselves voluntarily provide (commercial sex workers), devised to women with high-paying job offer in the restaurant as a cook / laundress and kidnappings accompanied by brutal acts of violence on women some countries in Asia Pacific under Japanese rule.

With the strengthening of the General Law of National Mobilization issued by the Japanese government in 1932, but has not fully implemented until the years approaching the end of the war. To the pressing needs of war on the human resources of both women and men are called to donate labor for the war effort. In connection with this then Social Services Women's Corps was established as a pretext to collect women to work in factories or doing tasks related to the war to help the Japanese military.

Location Ianjo seem to follow the direction of the war. Ianjo-Ianjo can be found wherever the Japanese army. Ianjo-Ianjo known through various sources in China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Philippines, Pacific Islands, Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar and Indonesia. Japanese military carefully in detail the system of prostitution. Ianjo regulations in the operation in different areas of Japan's military conquests in Asia Pacific have the same system as a set price to get into Ianjo, purchase tickets go to Ianjo, visiting hours, strict health controls of the Comfort women to avoid sexually transmitted diseases, provision of condoms to each visitor that enters Ianjo, prohibiting the use of guns and alcohol in the environment penggunakaan Ianjo.

Although healthy controls have been imposed against the Japanese military use Ianjo facilities, but many of them refuse to use condoms. So that adverse health effects such as venereal disease or unwanted pregnancy override the Comfort women Ianjo at various locations throughout the Asia Pacific region. Some of the findings as evidence that Ianjo memorabilia managed a neat management by the military.

Although in many Asia-Pacific region have been destroyed Ianjo building, but in Shanghai are still found intact Ianjo world's first building was built and operated under the control of the Japanese military. Ianjo first built in 1932. An expert on Chinese historian Prof. Su Zhiliang doing research for 15 years on location in China Ianjo. Approximately 149 Ianjo found spread across 20 provensi in China. Below are the findings are very important memorabilia. Daiich Saloon is located in Shanghai. Until now Daiich Saloon still exists although in some parts of the building has changed. But the preservation and restoration efforts have begun in China against Ianjo-Ianjo those found Prof. Su Zhiliang.

In some countries such Ianjo buildings are still found in the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and Myanmar, Timor Leste. With the historical evidence is found for a variety of opinion stating that the practice of Asia-Pacific War were euphemistically an accident in a state of war can be destroyed leburkan. Nor did exactly what happened to 400,000 women (South Korea, North Korea, China, Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia, Timor Leste and the Netherlands) who were systematically raped during the military invasion of Japan in the Asia Pacific region is a willing volunteer.