III Was Comfort House's System Peculiar to Japanese Army?

Professor Yoshimi insists Japanese Army was a politically responsible for the establishment of comfort stations. Establishing comfort stations in itself may become the hotbed of forcing into prostitution. It would be against international society's stream of abolishing prostitution started by "international Treaty About the Prohibition of Women and Children Trade" since 1925.

However, in World War II, every country established brothels for soldiers. Therefore, there was no international society's stream of abolishing prostitution in army. Department of U.S. Army's surgeons actually declared that U.S. Army adopted a policy of abolishing prostitution was harmful to health and morality in the latter half of World War II. However, the problem is the actual condition. In Europe, U.S. soldiers were best customers of prostitutes because they were very generous and had enough money. At that time, it was impossible to abolish prostitution in Army.

Moreover, in Japan, the Anti-Prostitution law was enforced in 1955. If Yoshimi's logic is right, Japanese government would be politically responsibile for having permitted prostitution. This is the same logic as Japanese government must a apologize and compensate for the women who conducted prostitution because it had admitted prostitutes in Japan before 1955.