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Re: Forced sex okayed for US troops
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Originally Posted by TheStripey1
There is the statute of limitations... 7 years I believe for all but capital crimes...
sam, this happened in the 40s... if you plan on prosecuting those that participated in it, you'll be digging up a lot of graves...
And tell me... how were those american GIs supposed to know that the women in the brothel had been kidnapped? I'm sure the number of men who spoke japanese back then were minimal... so how exactly were they supposed to know?
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Crying...screaming....not putting up with it peacefully at first. Suicide. That should have been a tip-off.
"As expected, after it opened it was elbow to elbow," the history says. "The comfort women ... had some resistance to selling themselves to men who just yesterday were the enemy, and because of differences in language and race, there were a great deal of apprehensions at first. But they were paid highly, and they gradually came to accept their work peacefully."
Natsue Takita, a 19-year-old Komachien worker whose relatives had been killed in the war, responded to an ad seeking an office worker. She was told the only positions available were for comfort women and was persuaded to accept the offer.
According to Kaburagi's memoirs, published in Japanese after the occupation ended in 1952, Takita jumped in front of a train a few days after the brothel started operations
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