Comfort Women Station

Comfort Women Station System

What is Comfort Women Station?

According to Japanese military information, the so-called "comfort station" refers to the "military comfort station", "military club" and "military entertainment center". When Yoshimi Yoshiaki investigated and researched the history of comfort women, he found documents that showed that the relationship between comfort stations and the military was divided into four types.
1. Comfort stations directly operated by the military
2. On the surface it is privately run, but in fact it is a comfort station controlled and managed by the military.
3. It is a comfort station that is privately owned but mainly used by military personnel.
4. Private brothels (Yoshimi Yoshiaki, 1992).

According to the Taipei Women's Rescue Foundation's interview data, most of the comfort stations reported by former Taiwanese comfort women belong to the first and second types of comfort stations, and there is no fourth type.

Picture: In Taiwan during the Japanese occupation, brothels existed in both the north and the south. According to the "Statistics of the Taiwan Governor's Office", Taiwan's brothels, restaurants, teahouses, Japanese okiya and other erotic places that Japanese men liked to visit were registered in the 15th year of Showa. Thousands. During the Pacific War, many places became comfort stations exclusively used by the Japanese army; Lee Yong-soo of Daegu, South Korea, was forcibly sent to Hsinchu Air Force Base by the Japanese army when he was fourteen years old.

In the 19th year of Showa (1944), Taiwan was turned into a fortress, and special forces were established in various places. Based on the above, it can be inferred that there will probably be comfort stations near the bases of the special forces (Li Guosheng, 1997).