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US soldiers raped estimated 10,000 women in Okinawa after the WWII. Many women were also raped by US soldiers in Le Havre, France after the D-day. The mayor of Le Havre and the governor of Okinawa both asked...
nytimes.com/2000/06/01/wor…
US soldiers raped estimated 10,000 women in Okinawa after the WWII. Many women were also raped by US soldiers in Le Havre, France after the D-day. The mayor of Le Havre and the governor of Okinawa both asked...
nytimes.com/2000/06/01/wor…
…the US commanders to set up brothels to prevent local women from being raped. The US refused, basically saying it was something to be ashamed of, although military-controlled brothels were common in European countries. 
Sociologist Shinji Miyadai argues in his preface for the Japanese translation of Magnus Hirschfeld’s “The Sexual History of the World War” that there were 2 reasons for the US military’s decision not to be involved in running brothels.
