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We can know about RAA or the Japanese Comfort Women Center for Occupation Force in Amazon.com sample pages. Most of them are wrote in anti-Japanese stance. Please read facts among political words.Kadzuwo 17:12, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Do you have a source for many RAA workers being virgins? This sounds extremely unlikely. Jpatokal 09:35, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

the idea that RAA was provided by Japanese government to stop American commiting rape is not proven. The slogan doesn't prove anything. It only show that the statement may be interpretated as such. FWBOarticle 07:19, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

There's a Home Ministry order setting up the RAA, what more proof do you need? Do you have alternative interpretation of the Japanese slogan? Anyway, I've NPOVed your edits a little (calling it an "exact copy" of the comfort women system is a bit much). Jpatokal 04:44, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Ah for example, it is to prevent American having sex with general Japanese women. Another thing, I think distinction should be made with sex slave and somewone who is in prostitution by debt bondage. The element of coersion still remain but slave usually have no way out unless the owner release the slave. This is not the case with bonded labour.

The difference between forcing a woman to work as a prostitute to avoid being shot and forcing her to work as a prostitute to avoid malnutrition or even starvation for herself or her family is IMO academic. The deliberate creation of a debt bond is similarly IMO ethically the same as directly employing whatever threats this bond then legally invokes. Food for thought? Andrewa 20:10, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Huh? Were the women of the RAA denied all other means of employment? Were they forced by some authority into joining the RAA? The distiction is far from academic, it's the basic difference between liberty and slavery. Jpatokal 04:44, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Thank you for your opinion. I'm sorry you have difficulty understanding mine.
I don't know the answers to your questions. Do you?
The whole point of the scenario I was describing is that other means of employment are not available. If those with what you describe as liberty have no practical option but to serve in a brothel, then in practice, this is sexual slavery IMO. Andrewa 12:54, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)


  • Can anyone find first person accounts of the women? Have there been any diaries or such? How they were treated etc?
  • As I read this article I got a major feeling of NPOV, but I can't really pin it on any one particular thing.
  • Can we also get a short summary of what the GHQ is? The article reads very poorly for someone who is not intimately familiar with Japanese government structure of the time.
  • Claims of foreign censorship are serious, but that section cites no references. Can someone cite these? P0tat03 23:53, 4 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
As you've noticed, this article tends to draw the comfort women revisionist crowd ("it can't have been so bad because the Allies did exactly the same thing!"). Some heavy referencing is needed... Jpatokal 00:26, 5 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comfort?

The article says that the name is 'more literally Special Comfort Facility Association'. Literal it may be, but the recent use of the word 'comfort' to translate 慰安 is somewhat suspect. The word comfort sounds like the women are provided for the 'comfort' of the troops. In fact, the nuance is that they are provided 'to comfort' the troops, i.e., to compensate for their hardships. In this sense, the literal translation is possibly no more enlightening than the official English name. The only useful function it serves is to relate the Recreation and Amusement Association to the issue of Comfort women. Bathrobe 05:11, 16 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's why I included it, as it's the same ian as in ianfu (慰安婦, "comfort woman"). If you can think of a better translation by all means go ahead. Jpatokal 12:16, 16 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Change of format of reference

Fine,you have done better method than I did for the link. Thank you. --Dumarest 21:16, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]


This whole page needs a re-write; it's just not written very well. The grammar is clunky, the capitalization is random, and the concept is not clearly put forth. 76.186.74.106 06:36, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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