“Anyone can understand that the system of comfort women was necessary to provide respite for a group of high-strung, rough and tumble crowd of men braving their lives under a storm of bullets,” Hashimoto said. He also questioned whether the women were really coerced and claimed comfort women were part of “a necessary system to maintain military discipline."
It is stated, but disputed by Japan, that in 1937 the Japanese Army raped, tortured and killed up to 300,000 people in Nangkin. They even took and kept photographs of the most appalling behaviour and treatment of women. There is a very good book titled 'The rape of Nangkin'. Not for the faint hearted to read. And I wish I hadn't!