FEATURE: Document reveals how Japanese women were duped into postwar sex work

Brothels established in Niigata Prefecture for Allied occupation forces immediately after Japan's surrender in World War II misled women they recruited by hiding the nature of the work, according to a recently discovered official document.Experts say the record demonstrates Japan's subservient attitude, symbolized by a willingness to offer local women up to ensure its occupiers were mollified.The document, compiled by a police station in the now-defunct prefectural town of Tsugawa between fiscal 1945 and 1946, is preserved in the Niigata Prefectural Archives.It provides a rare glimpse into …READ FULL ARTICLE