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The Rape of Japan: The Myth of Mass Sexual Violence During the Allied Occupation

The Rape of Japan: The Myth of Mass Sexual Violence During the Allied Occupation

Walsh, Brian P.

Hardcover

Armed ForcesJapanese History

Publisher Price: $31.95

ISBN10: 1682479307
ISBN13: 9781682479308
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: Jun 15 2024
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.54
Height: 1.14 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.26
Language: English
Most Americans regard the postwar Occupation of Japan as a prime example of American magnanimity. They are blithely unaware of the prevailing Japanese myth that upon entering Japan, U.S. servicemen engaged in an orgy of looting, sexual violence, and drunken brawling and that during the first ten days of the Occupation there were 1,336 reported cases of rape in Kanagawa Prefecture alone. The myth goes further with claims that U.S. military officers demanded the Japanese government set up brothels for use by American troops and that when embarrassed officials in Washington, D.C., forced Occupation officials to close the brothels, the servicemembers went on a rampage, resulting in (according to official records) reported rapes of Japanese women skyrocketing from an average of 40 to 330 cases a day.

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