Author: 2nd Independent Siege Heavy Artillery Battalion
Date: March 16, 1938Locations: Changzhou, China
Keywords: Management, regulations
Annotation by: Hye-in Han, Ph.D. Researcher, Asia Peace and History Institute
Image link: http://wam-peace.org/ianfu-koubunsho/pdf/K-PDF/K_D_059.pdf
ANNOTATION
This document contains regulations on duties within the 2nd Independent Siege Heavy Artillery Battalion. This document was published as part of Historical Records Related to the 2nd Independent Siege Heavy Artillery Battalion, including “Regulations of training security personnel.”
The document sets forth the regulations on the usage of the comfort stations in Article 9. It designates the Military Police Detachment as the supervising organization and requires the comfort station operators to take measures to prevent VD (venereal disease) among the “comfort women.”
The record shows different aspects of the usage and management of comfort stations by the battalion.
This was one of the records that the Japanese government released in 1992, categorized as a document submitted by the Defense Agency. The same document was included in the Compilation of documents related to the “comfort women” for the military, published by the Asian Women’s Fund (Vol. 2, p. 251-258).
Source:
WAM Collection: (Military_036)
#management #supervision #Changzhou #rules #regulations #venereal #disease
QUESTIONS FOR STUDENTS
Explain the following word to your students before asking them to read the annotation:
- venereal disease (VD): a sexually transmitted disease
After reading the annotation, please answer the following questions:
1. What kind of document is this?
2. Who wrote it?
3. What year was it created?
4. What was the historical context in East Asia during the time?
5. Where was it created?
6. What's the title of the document? What does the title tell you?
7. Who's the audience of the document?
8. Use one sentence to summarize this document.
9. Who supervised the comfort stations?
10. What were the comfort station operators required to do?
11. Why was it important to prevent VD?
12. The "comfort women" deniers tend to claim that the government or military bears no legal or official responsibility for the "comfort women" victims. Based on this document, do you think the claim is defendable? Why or why not?
13. What other questions do you have for this document?
14. How/Where can you find the answers?
*Questions for Students section was designed by Jing Williams, Associate Professor of Social Studies Education at University of South Dakota.