Shinzo Abe: "What Sex Slaves?"

Originally Posted by Zergrinch

niki, how possible is it to systematically gather 200,000 'comfort women' for an army without the involvement of the Japanese government? Especially in a society as hierarchical as Japan's?

Considering that the army in question is the Imperial Japanese Army, it's more possible than one might think at first. Remember that the IJA was effectively a law unto itself, and its junior officers were in particular quite happy to use violence to get the government to do what they wanted. They attempted several coups and assassinated several government ministers in the 1930s, for example.

So yeah, it was quite possible for the Japanese army to gather 200,000 "comfort women" itself, without the involvement of the Japanese government.

Jam it back in, in the dark.