Sex slaves became navy 'nurses' after surrender
性奴隷、降伏後、海軍の'看護婦'に
The Imperial Japanese Navy "employed" wartime sex slaves, euphemistically known as "comfort women," as "auxiliary nurses" immediately after Japan's defeat, according to an official British document recently obtained by a Japanese historian.
Yoshiaki Yoshimi, a professor of modern Japanese history at Chuo University in Tokyo, said the navy might have been trying to hide the existence of the sex slaves by "re-employing" them as nurses.
The document may well be the first seemingly official text to indicate the sex slaves were made to work as nurses after the war.
"Japan from the inside out"という名のブログを持つ彼も、そんな数少ない一人だ。彼は、共同の記事にも疑問を呈しつつ、ジャパン・タイムズに対しても厳しい。共同の記事に関する部分を割愛し、以下も乱暴に訳したので、正確なところは彼のブログを参照下さい。
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"Relative to naval 'consolation establishments' in Singapore, as of 1 August (1945) the employees (Japanese) have been given employment in (naval) Hospital No. 101. The larger number of the girls have been made auxiliary nurses. Please take steps similar to the above," the document says.