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I didn't know about this.
According to a lot of Japanese sources, more than 10,000 soldiers out of 72,000 Japanese expedition forces sent to Siberia in 1918 to 1922 got infected with venereal disease by raping Russian women.
" And, according to the source below, 20~30% of the Japanese expeditionary forces got venereal disease and the Japanese had more casualties from VD than combat activities. General Okamura who was the commander of the Japanese forces in China wrote in his memoirs that his establishment of comfort women system based on the harsh experience in Siberia. "
シベリア出兵はあまり知られていない対外戦争ですが、出兵した兵士の20~30%が性病になりました。日中 戦争の支那派遣軍総司令官であった岡村寧次大将の戦場回想録に、従軍慰安婦はシベリア出兵のときの経験をふ まえて自分が作ったと書いています。
This link shows that the Japanese expeditionary forces raped Russian women in Siberia.
http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/~yamadan/mond ... ct366.html
1931年の満州事変のときに、上海に派遣された日本陸海軍が・直接・軍慰安所を設置した資料が残っている と吉見氏は指摘しています。当時の慰安所設置の目的は「軍人による強姦事件を防止するため」だったようです 。実際に上海では日本軍人による強姦事件が多発しました。ただ、すぐに軍が対応し、軍の直営で慰安所を作っ た背景は、1918年から1922年に行われたシベリア出兵で民間人への略奪・強姦があり性病などが蔓延し た教訓も関係しているようです。
Ianfu-The Comfort Women of the Japanese Imperial Army of the Pacific War: Broken Silence
David A. Schmidt
"During the Siberian invasion of 1905, it was reported that many Japanese soldiers raped Russian women and subsequently were infected with venereal disease. "
This happened during when Japan defeated Russians 1905, this is Nanking of Russia.
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Japanese internees and Russians women
Historian S. Kuznetsov, dean of the Department of History of the Irkutsk State University, one of the first researchers of the topic, interviewed thousands of former internees and came to the following conclusion:
"Siberian Internment" (the Japanese term) was a unique and paradoxical phenomenon. Many of them have nostalgic and sentimental recollection of this period of their life. In their memoirs and recollections they drew a distinction between the attitude of the Soviet state machine and ordinary Russian people. Unlike Germans, Japanese were not associated in the perception of Russians with Nazi atrocities in the Russian land, although initially the attitude of Russians was hostile, under the influence of Soviet propaganda. What is more, romantic relations between Japanese internees and Russian women were not uncommon. For example, in the city of Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, about 50 Japanese married locals and stayed. Japanese noticed the overall poverty of the Russian population. They also met Soviet political prisoners in the GULAG prison camps abundant in Siberia at the time, and acquired a good understanding of the Soviet system. All of them recall the ideological indoctrination during the compulsory daily "studies of democracy", however only a very small number of them embraced communism."
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