JAPAN: WWII rape “necessary” to keep solders strong

[eridani]

http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/3023?share_ref=d7mZ-e2DFbc

During the Korean War, Eugene H. Dooman pulled off an audacious covert operation, bankrolled by the CIA. He grew up in Japan, the son of missionaries and he had worked at the Japanese Desk in the State Department. The American military needed tungsten, a scarce strategic metal used for hardening missiles. Japanese conservatives needed money. So the Dooman’s CIA group sold tons of tungsten to the Pentagon for $10 million and smuggled it into the US. The Tungsten had been stored by from Japanese military officers during the war. The smugglers included Yoshio Kodama and Kay Sugahara, a Japanese-American recruited by the OSS from a internment camp in California during World War II.

The CIA provided $2.8 million in financing for the tungsten operation, which reaped a profit more than $2 million in profits for the CIA’s secret intelligence and propaganda operations. By 1953, the CIA began working with warring conservative factions in Japan. In 1955, these factions merged to form the Liberal Democratic Party. (Source: the files of the late Mr. Sugahara and Aftermath of War: Americans and the Remaking of Japan, 1945-1952 by Howard Schonberger, a University of Maine professor)

[seabeyond]

1. doesnt the title alone, truly make you sick. sick. sick men. sick.... that they see women as a

thing to be tortured, raped, used. fuckin... sick in the head, the heart and sick in the soul.

[Arcanetrance]

2. Fucking sick I agree with seabeyond the title alone makes one ill

[DURHAM D]

3. Thanks for the headline and link but

your text doesn't match it.

Following is an excerpt from the article -

Historians believe Japan forced up to 200,000 Chinese and Korean women to be sex slaves during WWII. Women who survived — and weren't shamed into silence – have described being recruited for labor, then beaten and raped by as many as 40 Japanese officers a day.


The Japanese government still won't admit these women were actually kidnapped and raped. And now Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto has decided to give his take on the atrocities: rape and kidnapping were "necessary" to sate the lust and harness the virility of Japan's soldiers.

“Anyone can understand that the system of comfort women was necessary to provide respite for a group of high-strung, rough and tumble crowd of men braving their lives under a storm of bullets,” Hashimoto said. He also questioned whether the women were really coerced and claimed comfort women were part of “a necessary system to maintain military discipline."

[hollysmom]

4. they should have had a stock of blow up dolls instead

considering they didn't consider them living beings worthy of respect, the dolls would have been easier.

[ismnotwasm]

5. Heh!

Exactly.