limited wrote: ↑08 Apr 2024, 08:02
Sorry I posted this in another thread earlier, but its more relevant here. The Japanese state committed many crimes against Japanese women themselves before before and after World War II, trafficking them as sex slaves to benefit their economy and fund their military growth.
Japan's militarisation against China was funded by decades of sex trafficking of Japanese girls to Chinese men and western men. Japan was a poor country in both resources and technology before western assistance.
100,000 Japanese girls called "Karayuki-san" were sold by the Japanese government to foreigners including Chinese and westerners across China, Siberia, North america, Australia, British India, British East Africa, British Malaya, British Borneo, Dutch East Indies, French Indochina and the American Philippines, in order to raise money for Japan's militarisation and economy after the Meiji restoration. The Japanese prostitutes also acted as spies in China and Southeast Asia before World War II. They were divided into subcategories like Ameriyuki-san depending on where they went.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karayuki-san
US diplomat Townsend Harris demanded Japan's government provide him with Japanese teenage girls for sex. The Japanese government obliged him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townsend_Harris#In_Japan
Many Chinese merchants, students and exiles in Meiji Japan took Japanese girls as concubines, Sun Yatsen had a 13 year old Japanese concubine and another Japanese woman as another concubine. Meiji Japan allowed sex trafficking and selling of underage Japanese girls to both Chinese and westerners for Japan to earn money. Tokugawa Japan did the same thing on a more limited scale in Nagasaki while Meiji Japan expanded trafficking of Japanese girls to all over Japan and the world. Hideyoshi also did it before them and sold Japanese girls to Chinese merchants in Nagasaki too. The Orandayuki-san Japanese girls served Dutch merchants while Karayuki-san Japanese girls served Chinese merchants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su_Manshu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dai_Jitao
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaoru_Otsuki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haru_Asada
https://meijiat150.arts.ubc.ca/episode- ... -setsunan/
And at some point, they met procurers, who talked about nice things of America: job opportunities or a chance to have an American education or marry rich landowners in California, who turned out to be peasants or hired hands who forced them into prostitution. I also found that not all women were unaware of what kinds of work they would do in their destinations. Some women had already sold sexual services to local foreigners in Yokohama working as servants in the houses of Chinese merchants. Others worked in brothels and dance halls, catering to foreign sailors and merchants. And in that process, they became familiarized with foreigners and Western cultures, which influenced their decision to follow masters or procurers to the American West.
https://napost.com/2018/karayuki-san-in-the-west/
Based on geography alone, the southern countries would have been the nearby teeming cities of China, specifically the adjoining mainland centers of Shanghai and Hong Kong, and in nearby Taiwan, the capital, Taipei.
Unstated is the labor that the women performed. It was prostitution, the timeless trade of dreams for cash. By the late 19th and early 20th century, the Japanese karayuki business had extended beyond China to the developing Pacific Rim, including the Philippines, Australia, Manchuria, Siberia, and even British India.
That such business also reached western North America has long been k non, if not widely acknowledged. For example, a Seattle Issei describes an apparently organized, vast network: “At the age of 18… I started… work as a dishwasher at a hotel in Spokane. Later I became a [railroad?] cook and went to North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and even as far as to Minnesota and Alaska… To my surprise I found at least two to six Japanese prostitutes in every town where I went between Seattle and St. Paul, a range of two thousand miles. Even when I went to Alaska to… a salmon cannery in 1908, I was surprised to see from two to five or six in such towns as Ketchikan, Juneau, Wrangell, Sitka, and Skagway.”
—Bunshiro Tazuma, in Kazuo Ito’s “Issei”
Japanese government begged Jacob Schiff for loans against Japan during the Russo Japanese war. Japan's economy would have collapsed and they would have lost the war if it weren't for Schiff giving emergency loans to Japan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Schiff
US recognised and supported Japan colonising Korea in the Taft Katsuura agreement of 1905 in exchange for Japan recognising US colonising the Philippines, with Japan saying that the Philippines shouldn't be under the misrule of the natives. US president Theodore Roosevelt was supported by Jacob Schiff who influenced him to side with Japan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft–Katsura_agreement
US military officers helped Japanese attack Paiwan Aboriginals in Taiwan in 1874 and helped them colonise Ainu in Hokkaido.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_ ... wan_(1874)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokkaidō_ ... Commission
Britain helped built Meiji Japan's fleet and its aircraft carriers which were used against China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sempill_Mission
Japan only obtained Chinese naval codes in the Nagasaki incident when Chinese sailors visiting Japanese prostitues were invovled in a brawl with Japanese police and dropped the code book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagasaki_incident
Japan helped France colonise French Indochina by threatening to go to war against China on France's side during the Sino-French war over the Gapsin coup in Korea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gapsin_Coup
At least over 10,000 Japanese girls and women settlers called Zanryu-Fujin were left behind in Manchukuo after 1945 and they were taken by local Chinese farmers as wives, while Soviet soldiers (who raped Japanese nurses and Japanese female settlers) deported Japanese men and soldiers to Siberian gulags to be worked to death. Japan did nothing to save its own people and the women blame the Japanese government for abandoning them.
70,000 Japanese girls including teenage high school students were forced into prostitution by the Japanese government in the "Recreation and Amusement Association" to service western Allied US, UK and Australian soldiers after 1945. Some of the Japanese girls were from families in Hiroshima, after their families were wiped out by the atomic bomb.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recreatio ... ssociation
Former Japanese Unit 731 scientists experimented on Japanese babies during tests for the US military after World War II in the 1950s. A Japanese baby girl they experimented on died from infection.
https://theguardian.newspapers.com/arti ... 122763034/
After 1948 Japan forced sterilised 25,000 Japanese women and girls, including a nine year old Japanese girl.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... genics-law
https://www.nippon.com/ja/currents/d00421/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-65958119
Japan didn't respect their own women's rights, treating them as commodities to be sold to foreign men.
Some pro-Japanese on here have tried to use the argument that people moving to Manchukuo proved that Chinese identity didn't exist and there was no nationalism.
Then it follows that Japanese Karayuki-san prostitutes moving to China and other countries proves that China was better run than Japan and Japanese people had no sense of national or ethnic identity.
They also say that Chinese don't value human life because of the alleged death rate during military conscription.
During the battle of Beicang in the Boxer rebellion and land siege of Port Arthur and battle of Nanshan in Russo-Japanese war, the Japanese ordered their own soldiers to go on human wave attacks against outnumbered enemies. Numerically superior Japanese soldiers were machine gunned and slaughtered in the tens of thousands by outnumbered Russians who suffered less casualties on land. Japan only survived the war because of Jacob Schiff's loans and Britain building the Meiji fleet for Japan to fight the Russian Baltic fleet at sea.
During World War II, Japan fed its soldiers methamphetamine and said it would sacrificed 100 million Japanese civilians for the emperor in an Allied invasion of Japan.
Its pretty easy to see which side doesn't value their own people's lives.
Even today Japanese women, including ones married to impotent Japanese men are going to Danish sperm banks for Danish sperm.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/ ... perm-bank/
https://www.progress.org.uk/danish-sper ... ince-2019/