This essay argues that the Japanese military’s management of comfort stations reflected an understanding of human nature and discipline in wartime.
By contrasting this with atrocities committed by other armies and with modern global sex industries, it exposes the hypocrisy and pseudo-moralism that distort historical reality.

2016-07-04

The following is an essay published on July 2, 2015, under the title “This Is a Fact Known to Anyone Who Regularly Reads Serious Reporting Such as Newsweek.”
The fact that the military managed comfort stations demonstrates the high level of intelligence of the Japanese military at the time, in contrast to the Soviet or German armies.
In other words, they properly understood the nature of human beings.
Even people lacking intelligence understand that sexual desire, appetite, and the desire for money are essential human desires—desires that cannot be eliminated and never fade.
Especially under wartime conditions, if these are not properly managed, it leads not only to atrocious acts of rape and prostitution like those committed by German soldiers, Soviet soldiers, or, in more recent times, South Korean soldiers during the Vietnam War, but also undermines military discipline and the fulfillment of duty; preventing such barbarity is what genuine intelligence means.
Even in largely peaceful times like today, countless sex industries overflow across the world.
Soldiers in wartime who may not live to see tomorrow—needless to say, armies do not consist of frail elderly people or children.
On the contrary, armies are composed of physically strong individuals.
If one believes that such people have no sexual desire, then one’s intellect is sheer nonsense, and one’s pseudo-moralism has reached an extreme.
This tendency is particularly pronounced in China, a one-party dictatorship ruled by the Communist Party, and in South Korea, which is in reality a totalitarian state.
For example, the fact that large numbers of women (prostitutes) are continually sent to cities such as Paris
is something that everyone—except you at Asahi Shimbun—
who regularly reads serious reporting such as Newsweek is well aware of.