SDHF Newsletter No.435 The Lunacy of Anti-Japan’s Holocaustr No.8 Chapter 7

The Lunacy of Anti-Japanese Racism
Unmasking “Japan’s Holocaust”
By Moteki Hiromichi
No.8: Chapter 7: The “Comfort Women”: Japan’s Sexual Slave Culture and an Insult to Japan

August 26, 2025

Rigg writes extremely ignorant view in his book, “DURING THE ASIAN-PACIFIC War, the Japanese military and government established numerous rape centers throughout the empire, providing military personnel with easy access to sexual services.” (p.161) Rigg’s discussion on the “comfort women” is based on the premise that Japan was a premodern and completely lawless society.

The “comfort stations” where the “comfort women” provided sexual services were not “rape center” at all, but facilities provided to “prevent rape.” It was not easy for even the highly disciplined Japanese military to prevent young soldiers who had been in battle for a long time from acting on their sexual impulses and committing rape. It is the same for American troops, looking at the fact that Americans with occupation that landed in Japan committed 1,326 rapes in Kanagawa prefecture alone in the 12 days from August 30 to September 10, 1945.

The reason why the Japanese military established “comfort station” was for young people to use prostitution facilities, so called “red light districts,” which were legal at that time, when they were in the home country. So the “comfort women” who worked in these comfort stations were the same as prostitutes who worked in brothels in the home country, but they received a large advance payment from the “comfort station operators,” contracted to work for a certain period of time, and provided services. According to US military interrogation records, the comfort women’s monthly revenue was on average 750 yen, higher than general’s 600 yen. It’s really ridiculous that Rigg considers women earning much higher than general as “sex slave”

As to US military’s sex policy, they officially did not allow prostitution, but actually it has been well-known now that they established military brothels in Italy, Morocco, Algeria, and Libya during World War II. In France, you can know how American GI’s behaved by reading What Soldiers Do by Mary Louise Roberts. Mayor Pierre Voisin wrote a letter to Colonel Wood, the American regional commander, “Americans construct a regulated brothel north of town?”

The mayor went as far a requesting the US military to set up a “comfort station.” This shows that Japan was doing something far-sighted. Rigg should recognize this fact!

URL: https://www.sdh-fact.com/book-article/2350/
PDF: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/antij8e.pdf

MOTEKI Hiromichi, Chairman
Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact