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Deciphering historical documents related to Japanese military sexual slavery in wartime Focusing on “A Japanese Soldier’s Camp Diary”

Li, Qingling

日本軍慰安所

陣中日記

日中戦争

Japanese military comfort stations

Japanese military sexual slavery

Japanese Soldier's Camp Diary

World War II

This paper uses the “A Japanese Soldier’s Camp Diary”, held at the Hubei Provincial Archives in China, as a first-hand evidence of Japanese official involved in the Japanese military comfort stations establishment in China during World War II, analyzes the actual situation of the Japanese military comfort stations under direct Japanese military control in wartime. Through this examination, the structural changes in the Japanese military sexual slavery system in wartime have been clarified. As can be gleaned from the general soldiers’ perception of comfort stations as a type of facility within the Japanese military, which is frequently mentioned in the diary, and based on the accumulation of related previous studies, it can be inferred that the Japanese military not only rationalized the establishment of comfort stations within the military, but is also thought to have had a significant impact on the structural changes in the Japanese military sexual slavery system in wartime.