How Japan’s Home Ministry set up “comfort facilities” for Allied troops in 1945, why the RAA closed in 1946, and which famous figures lack documents.
How Japan’s 1956 Anti-Prostitution Act closed the red lines in 1958: the two-stage start, what it punishes and doesn’t, and the loophole today.
Between 1946 and 1958 Japan’s sex industry was officially abolished and openly operating. Red-line and blue-line districts, explained from the primary sources.
