In historical societies, the controversy over whether women (comfort women) who engaged in sexual services at brothels (comfort stations: Ianjos) for the Imperial Japanese Forces at the time of the Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific War (comfort women) were sex slaves or licensed prostitutes (public prostitutes) continues even now, 80 years after the war. Historiography requires that historical writing be based on reliable official primary sources, but except for materials issued by the Allied Forces, these materials are all in Japanese. Unfortunately, these Japanese-language official documents (
This article is based on official sources and describes the establishment, operation, and control of Ianjos, as well as the controversy over Ianjos and comfort women. On Wikipedia(en), Ianjo is redirected to Comfort women, and this article does not exist.
