From Where They Were Taken
A great number of the women were from Korea, China, Japan and the Philippines, although women from Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan, Indonesia and other Japanese-occupied surroundings were used for military "comfort stations". Stations were located in Japan, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaya, Thailand, Burma, New Guinea, Hong Kong, Macau, and what was then known as the French Indo-China.
In 1932 the Japanese military began to institute “comfort stations,” places where women were kept to serve as sex slaves to men in the Japanese military. Lieutenant- General Okamura Yasuji, one of the military leaders who confessed that he helped arrange the creation of comfort stations, said that one of the reasons behind the creation of comfort stations was the high numbers of rapes that Japanese soldiers were committing in China. Building military-run comfort stations drastically decreased the number of reported rape of local women. The first comfort station under military control was in Shanghai, China. Comfort stations soon began being set-up through out the territories occupied by Japan.
In 1932 the Japanese military began to institute “comfort stations,” places where women were kept to serve as sex slaves to men in the Japanese military. Lieutenant- General Okamura Yasuji, one of the military leaders who confessed that he helped arrange the creation of comfort stations, said that one of the reasons behind the creation of comfort stations was the high numbers of rapes that Japanese soldiers were committing in China. Building military-run comfort stations drastically decreased the number of reported rape of local women. The first comfort station under military control was in Shanghai, China. Comfort stations soon began being set-up through out the territories occupied by Japan.