SDHF Newsletter No.36: A Positive Method for Prevention of Venereal Disease

Posted on 15/06/2015

November 30, 2011

Following Dr. Amako’s paper titled “Relationship between ‘Comfort Women’ and
‘Medical treatment’,” which was released on October, 2009 on our website,
I would like to introduce to you Dr. Aso’s paper titled “Positive Method
for Prevention of Venereal Disease”.

Dr. Aso, Dr. Amako’s father, was an Army Medical Doctor attached to the 14th
Clearing Hospital of Eleventh Army. He submitted this paper to a meeting on
military medicine in Jinjiang on June 30, 1939.

His paper surveyed the rate of sexal desease inflection in militaries of
Europe and America and proposed positive or proactive methods for prevention
of veneral disease within the military. Dr. Aso’s paper clearly showed that
prior to World War II, prostitution and the spread of veneral disease were
not problems limited solely to Japan but problems of great concern faced
by all militaries.

Thus,“comfort girls” as noted in an official US document (United States
Office of War Information, Psychological Warfare Team Attached to U.S. Army
Forces, India-Burma Theater), were nothing more than prostitutes or
professional “camp followers”and their presence should be judged within the
context of prostitution at that time. If Japanese Army “comfort women” are
to be called “sex slaves”, then what should prostitutes who served to
European and Amercan armies be called? Double standards should not be permitted.

*Summary: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/81_S2.pdf
*Full text: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/81_S4.pdf
*Author profile: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/81_S3.pdf

Questions are welcome.

Sincerely,

MOTEKI Hiromichi, Secretary General
for KASE Hideaki, Chairman
Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact