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Japan was especially distinguished by its cruelty during the World War II and the Sino-Japanese War, for which modern Japanese do not like to remember now, and the majority is not out of shame. One of the horrors perpetrated by the Japanese then can be attributed to the "comfort stations" or in other words, field brothels, which worked until the end of the war. The initiator of their organization for the Japanese army was lieutenant general Yasuji Okamura, citing his suggestion that the soldiers, raping women, become infected with sexually transmitted diseases and the emergence of anti-Japanese sentiment. And, it is not difficult to guess that he got a green light from the government.

Thus, in 1932, in Shanghai appeared the first " comfort stations ", when many Korean and Chinese women were deceived by announcements about the provision of work by "special nurses" for a decent reward, which many Japanese women initially came to at their own will, and later there began to bring prisoners from the Philippine and Indonesian camps. And in total, women from 17 countries of the world "worked" there. And it was not only young women, but also very young girls, even younger than 15 years old.

Despite the fact that in 1945, Japan unconditionally surrendered and the war was over, the suffering of those women did not end. After all, how could they continue to live after the endured hell? Most of the survivors, even out of shame, kept in secret all the events they had experienced. But there were those who stood up to protect the victims and in the 90s gave publicity to the horrors of military times. For example, in South Korea, surviving "comfort women" every Wednesday participate in a weekly protest in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, which was authored by Korean Council for Women Invoked for Military Sexual Slavery in Japan "to tell the public about the cruel treatment of the Japanese military with women, and put pressure on the Japanese government to receive a formal apology.

Moreover, in 2011, a monument appeared in Seoul, perpetuating the sufferings of "comfort women", and in 2016 the same was erected in Busan. The reaction of an official Tokyo was sharp. And many in the government of Japan still believe that women "worked" in these institutions voluntarily for money. For example, in 2007, the Japanese Prime Minister Sindzo Abe said that the mass of victims was not proven, and the living conditions of women were much better than those of officers. And in 2013, the Co-Chairman of Japan Innovation Party, Hashimoto Toru, stated that they were necessary to "maintain discipline" and provide "some rest" to the military, who risked their lives.

As South Korean activist Kim Bok Ton recalls, one of the surviving "comfort women" who died in February 2019 at the age of 92 years old and who never got an apology from the Japanese government for her broken life and the lives of her sisters in misfortune, the Japanese soldiers lined up in lines of 50 people a day to "rest". Also, in response to the fact that in 2016, Japan donated one billion yen to finance the victims in compensation, said that the Koreans would not accept the money, even if they were given 10 billion, explaining that it’s not about the money, but the fact that the Japanese still say that they "went to work in the stations for solace of their own accord".

Thus, the reluctance of certain Japanese politicians to recognize responsibility for the actions of their army during the World War II is associated with the desire to get rid of the image of the "guilty country and the aggressor". And the appearance of new history textbooks makes it possible to conclude that today's government approved the actions of the former militarists.