It’s the responsabilty of the Japanese governement to establish a drastic law and bring to justice any American soldier who commit a crime or a felony in Japan, which is not the case till today.

So there WAS a strong reason behind the creation of the stereotypes about the Japanese being perverts… It probably originated from things like this. Well, the article was very interesting, and sure as heck fits the theme of the dark side of Japan.

And let’s not forget: there were also plenty of Japanese comfort women. Not to mention what happened in Japan after the war with the Allied occupation. Mass rapes (~1,400 women were raped by Allied forces in the opening days of the occupation in the Tokyo-Kanagawa area alone, and that’s only the number of women who actually reported it to police), gang rapes, women pressed into prostitution. The vast majority of the rapes cases with Allied involvement never made it to a court for trial.

Professor Tanaka Yuki wrote a very good book on the issue “Japan’s Comfort Women”. The book deals with the sex slaves which were forced into service by the Japanese military, but also with the Japanese women after the war, who were preyed upon by Allied soldiers, or who ended up drafted into the sex trade by the governmental controlled and Allied approved “Recreation and Amusement Association”.

Many of the incidents are confirmed by Allied Military Police officers. But, as an Australian officer wrote, even if the MP would arrest a rapist -cases with Allied involvement meant that the Japanese police had no jurisdiction- then any verdict thrown upon him in Japan would usually not survive the inspection back home.

Allied forces must have raped thousands of women, just like Japanese soldiers have raped thousands of Asian women. But we only know about a few of them, because not every rape victim reports the crime to the police (even today).