Editing Sexual slavery (section)

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[[File:Yasuura House.jpg|thumb|Yasuura House, one such center]]
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The {{nihongo|Recreation and Amusement Association|特殊慰安施設協会|Tokushu Ian Shisetsu Kyōkai}} (RAA) was the largest of the organizations established by the [[Occupied Japan|Japanese government]] to provide organized [[prostitution]] and other leisure facilities for occupying Allied troops immediately following [[World War II]].<ref>
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The RAA established its first brothel on 28 August: the Komachien in [[Ōmori]]. By December 1945, the RAA owned 34 facilities, 16 of which were "comfort stations". The total number of prostitutes employed by the RAA amounted to 55,000 at its peak.

The dispersal of prostitution made it harder for GHQ to control STIs and also caused an increase in rapes by GIs, from an average of 40 a day before the [[Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers|SCAP]] order to an estimated 330 per day immediately after.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Tenaglia-Webster, Maria |title=Slavery |date=2009 |publisher=Greenhaven Press |isbn=978-0-7377-5032-4 |oclc=436342592}}</ref>