U.S. occupation authorities continued Japan’s comfort station system in Korea

Evidence

Most troublingly, U.S. military authorities occupying Korea after the war took over some of the “comfort stations” that had been central to the Japanese war machine since the nineteenth century. During its conquest of territory across East Asia, the Japanese military forced hundreds of thousands of women from Korea, China, Okinawa and rural Japan, and other parts of Asia into sexual slavery, providing soldiers with “royal gifts” from the emperor. With the assistance of Korean officials, U.S. authorities continued the system absent formal slavery, but under conditions of exceedingly limited choice for the women involved. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 481

Categorization

• XREF: Direct lineage from imperial Japan’s sexual slavery to U.S. military practice; connects to Chalmers Johnson’s writings on Okinawa bases and the comfort women history.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 481