Comfort Women
Around the shelters, there were three comfort houses with 4 to 5 Korean comfort women servicing these. These were however not intended for soldiers, but primarily for supervisors of higher standing within the ranks of the Korean labourers. However, it is rumoured that children were chided for having stole a glance at soldiers in trucks and women in what appeared to be Chinese clothes.
Among these, there was an entertainment room for female staff of a local company. After its liquidation in 1938, it became in September 1944 an accommodation facility for labourers. To prevent troubles with local women, it was used as a comfort house. In November, a Korean family of five and three comfort women who could not speak Japanese, allegedly brought in by Korean authorities to comfort Korean labourers, started a gambling facility in the premises. It is unclear if concurrently, sexual services were provided. After the war, the family and others left for home.
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