III) Brothel's dealers forced comfort women into prostitution. They did not have freedom of going out, giving up their business, returning their home, and refusing to serve customers. They were treated violently by Japanese soldiers and exploited by brothel's dealers while Japanese Army knew.
Japanese Army had to supervise and regulate these bad conducts, but they left them. Japanese Army and government are guilty because they did not do anything effective to protect comfort women.
VIII) Japanese Army regulated bad brothel's dealers who had comfort women work excessively.
"Logistics at Wuhan (1943)" described "As brothel's dealers who appeared Hankou had Korean comfort women work excessively. They were exploited such as slaves. Logistics controlled this brothel at Wuhan. Comfort women's debts became lower. Korean comfort women borrowed average 6000 yen to 7000 yen, but they could earn 400 yen to 500 yen a month. They could pay debts for one and a half year. Moreover, they could return their home after they worked more than that period and saved money, .
"Hankou Comfort Stations" (1940), written by Ken'ichi Nagasawa, a Japanese Army medical doctor, described that Headquarters of logistics managed comfort house, and it must have protected comfort women who had been unfairly exploited by vicious brothel's dealers. Some cruel examples of Korean brothel's dealers bought and gathered poor farmers' daughters without any bonds or papers in order to have them work excessively, then brothel's dealers threw them away.
Women would not be free. They did not seem to understand their circumstances either. Fujisawa, a military surgeon, made brothel's dealers the certifications of debts by adding the salary of comfort women to miscellaneous expenses. Fujisawa changed the situation that women who worked hard enough to finish paying their debts could be free from their business.
"Conditions and Regulation of Japanese Comfort Women Abroad in 1936," written by a history record of police station at Shanghai general consulate, described, ". . .Police strictly regulated comfort house cooperating with Navy and prevented brothel's dealers from opening a business. . ." The number of comfort women, who would change their jobs to other occupations such as saleslady and dancers, tends to increase.
Police and Navy authorities didn't permit debts between brothel's dealers and comfort women. They ordered brothel's dealers and comfort women to divide comfort women's earnings equally. Police and Navy regulated brothel's dealers did not prevent from giving up their business because of debt.
"The 74th Bulletin of Sekihei-dan (About Facilities Behind)" (on October 1944), military authorities requested each unit to report an investigation about the relationship between brothel's dealers and comfort women, then military authorities decided their share. Brothel's dealers acquired thirty percent of comfort women's earnings, and comfort women acquired seventy percent of their earnings.
"A collection of military administration's regulations (Regulation of an employment contract of comfort women No. 3, on November 11th 1943, Supervision's Department of Malaysia's Military Administration) told that: Military authorities set a standard when they should employ comfort women. They decided any kinds of all comfort women's debts no interest. Brothel's dealers had to pay comfort women's rooms, closets, clothes, sterilizers, beddings, food, lamplights, disinfectant antiseptics, and medical examinations.
Moreover, brothel's dealers had to make three percent of comfort women's wages saved as their names, and gave their savings back when they would give up their business. All money and goods customers directly gave belonged to theirs. Brothel's dealers had to clear their income by the day when they gave up their business. Brothel's dealers had to pay all amusement expenses comfort women had not paid.
Similar contents are in "Living facilities in Japanese Army (report on an investigation of ATIS, No. 120)" and "Report of item about the second repatriates in Serebesu civil administration - A report on an investigation about a facilities of prostitution - living way of prostitutes."
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