During the Second World War, fraudulent recruiters sometimes promised young Korean women factory jobs but sent them … instead to war-zone brothels called "comfort stations." Western historians take it on faith that the Japanese military forced … earnings, the women demanded a large portion of their pay upfront. Realizing that they were headed to the war zone, they …

Through its "comfort women" framework, the World War II Japanese military extended its licensing regime for domestic … prostitutes (we limit this article to women recruited from Korea and Japan) through variations on the standard indenture contracts … that the licensed brothels had used in Korea and Japan. Some women took the jobs because they were tricked by fraudulent …

Conviction rates in Japan exceed 99 percent -- why? On the one hand, because Japanese prosecutors are badly …