Japan actually has comfort men. Why do American female soldiers need comfort?

After World War II in Japan, it was well known that the RAA recruited young Japanese women to serve as "comfort women" for American soldiers, but few people knew that the RAA was also ordered to recruit young Japanese men as "comfort men" for American female soldiers in Japan.

Excerpted from "Wenshi Exposition," 2012, Issue 6

On August 15, 1945, Japan was defeated and surrendered. Under the command of MacArthur, the U.S. military occupied Japan, and the Japanese public was in a state of panic. Because the Japanese army had committed many atrocities in China and other Asian countries, there was a traditional belief in the Japanese mindset: the victorious side would inevitably humiliate the women of the defeated country. Therefore, the Japanese government's thinking was: to protect the chastity of the imperial family, aristocrats, nobles, and women of the upper society, and to ensure the continuation of pure Japanese blood, a "sexual buffer" must be established — recruiting civilian women to provide sexual services to U.S. troops. Under the direction of Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department established the "Special Comfort Facility Association," which translated into English was the "Recreation and Amusement Association," abbreviated as RAA. Among the Japanese, it was referred to as the "National Prostitution Organization." The RAA recruited many young women from ordinary families across the country to become comfort women. At its peak, there were about 70,000 "employees" throughout Japan.

After World War II in Japan, it was well known that the RAA recruited young Japanese women to serve as "comfort women" for American soldiers, but few people knew that the RAA was also ordered to recruit young Japanese men as "comfort men" for American female soldiers. Why did American female soldiers need "comfort"? It is said that this was because the U.S. advocated "gender equality in all aspects," and the U.S. military believed "women who fought and risked their lives for their country on the battlefield also have the right to enjoy victory." Since male soldiers could have comfort women, female soldiers could also have comfort men.

Compared with the tragic fate of Japanese comfort women, comfort men were treated relatively well. In the book "Do You Know Postwar Japan? — The Occupying Forces' Rule and Education in Japan," compiled by Japan's Showa Research Institute and supervised by Takashi Momose, a professor at Sendai University, there is a record of a story about an "American female soldier using a comfort man."

This comfort man, named Junichi Takeda, was recruited in the 21st year of the Showa era (1946) to serve the American female soldiers stationed in Nagoya.At that time, the U.S. military first subjected all Japanese civilian men recruited by the RAA to strict physical examinations. From hearts, stomachs, eyes, to skin, muscles, blood, urine, as well as sexually transmitted diseases and hemorrhoids, all were thoroughly examined, and each young man who passed the examination was assigned a room. The first "guest" Junichi Takeda welcomed was a female sergeant who had previously been examined for comfort men. This female sergeant was immediately attracted and kept him. He described the female corporal's figure as follows: "Her breasts are like two lunchboxes (Japanese lunchboxes are cylindrical), and her waist reminds one of the cows of her hometown." The comfort men's "work" was to "go to work" every other day, earning $3 per day. In addition, they received beef, butter, cheese, and other "anything needed to restore strength, as much as you wanted." At that time, ordinary Japanese people could only eat yam and were not enough to eat. The "job" of comfort men was quite rare, but physically exhausting! For half a year, except for handling necessary military duties, the female sergeant spent all her remaining time "serving" this comfort man. When this female sergeant returned to the United States, she "couldn't stop shedding tears." In addition, Japanese historian Toshiyuki Tanaka published an article titled "Why Does the U.S. Military Ignore the Issue of Military Comfort Women?" It was also revealed that "Japanese comfort men also provided services to gay soldiers and nurses serving in the U.S. military." The sacrifices of comfort women and men greatly promoted Japan's economic development. "Do You Know Postwar Japan?" —The Occupation Forces' Rule and Enlightenment of Japan" records: From the post-World War II period to Japan's economic rise during the later Korean War, although there are no specific statistics, the comfort industry was indeed the highest-generating foreign exchange industry for Japan. However, in the face of the sacrifices of Japanese civilian women and men, the Japanese government showed no remorse. When discussing this history, it spoke with a tone of "indifference," and the RAA became a page in Japanese history that was unwilling to be uncovered. Thirty years after the RAA's founding, Japanese journalist Yukio Oshima interviewed the then RAA program executor, former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Nobuya Saka. Saka's conversation was included in Japan's World War II historical record "Postwar History in Plain Colors." In the interview, Ban said: "It's already a matter now, so why bring up that matter?"What a low-level question! At that time, because Fumimaro Konoe had a strong understanding of what Japanese soldiers did to Chinese women in China (derogatorily referred to by Japan as 'Shina'), he called me to the Prime Minister's residence and gave me this task for the purpose of rescuing Yamato Nadeshiko (general term for Japanese women). The RAA issue is not a matter that decides the fate of the country; it's just a tiny issue. Although some people say that the women who were recruited as comfort women were sacrificed like offerings in a ritual, that is merely like the 'comments of onlookers at a fire,' entirely imagined by people. Moreover, did the Japanese government have any other means back then? It was precisely because of that that Japanese women avoided the 'chastity crisis.' BS about these islanders.