Why china is the only land where millions of women get raped during wars?

Question

why?we know millions of women get raped in china during the war against japan in WW2

why it's hard to see this situation in other countries in warfare.

even they warred upon each other,but you can't see rape happen so common

Answer 1

Actually, rape has been a disturbing factor in many wars. I would venture to guess that millions were raped in China simply because there were millions of them. You need to research this issue as a percentage of the population. Then it might be clear that percentage wise there was little difference between Asian and non-Asian wars.  

Answer 2

It is not true: it happened it almost every war, and it happens in almost every war.

In world war II most of the so called "comfort women" kidnapped and enslaved by Japanese were Korean.

What is specifically remembered of the Japanese invasion of China are massacres like the Nanjing massacre or "rape of Nanjing" (term that may have generated confusion) when over 300,000 people were horribly slaughtered by japanese soldiers after systematic rape of  women and child.

Question should be "Why japanese did it?"

They did the same in Philippine, Korea, Malaysia and many other places.

Mass war rapes happened during Vietnam war, in former Yugoslavia ethnic wars (made by any side: Serbian on Croatian, Croatian on Serbian and Bosnian, Bosnian on Serbian) and in the Tutsi/ Hutu wars in East Africa: any war carries violence, deaths, rape and misery.

Edit: millionaire: your comment "because they were pretty" is disturbing. Reading another recent answer (about a two Hong Kong dollars coin)  I can understand you have racial issues toward China. Meanwhile try to don't joke on this and respect the memory of these women.

Answer 3

      Apparently you haven't been watching the news of Durfar, Afghanistan, other areas of Africa and the Middle East. China can't hold a claim after what happen in Bosnia and these areas.

Answer 4

It actually happened in several countries, but the other countries didn't have millions of women available- I know that sounds bad but it is true.

Japan did the same thing in Philipines that they did in China. Philipines just didn't have as many women.

Answer 5

I don't know where you get your information from but rape in wartime has been going on for as long as there have been wars.

Have a look at these websites (click the blue)

Women have always been considered among the "spoils of war." Accounts of rape in war date back to ancient Greece -- the archetypal abduction of Helen of Troy and the rape of the Sabine women, for example. Many hundreds of thousands of women have been raped in wars in the past hundred years.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/4911...

Rape as a weapon of war: sexual violence and its consequences.

http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/A...

Rape Epidemic Raises Trauma of Congo War

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/world/...

Ten years after the end of the worst carnage in Europe since World War II,  children born of war rape in Bosnia  are beginning to ask questions about their past.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8007740/

Answer 6

It isn't the only one by any measure.  Before modern times, it was the norm to rape and pillage as your army marched across both the enemy and even your own land.  This was common for Europeans, Asians, Middle Easterners, Africans, everyone...

Look into the Soviet advance into East Prussia in WW2.  Over 2 million German women were raped by the advancing Soviets in a 6 month period.  It was actually encouraged by Soviet leadership.  When they got to Berlin, 60,000 women were raped in the first 3 days.  Girls as young as 10 to women in their 90's.

Answer 7

because they`re so pretty

actually, it happened in other wars too !  probably every war by every army, although not by every soldier  

Answer 8

Women are raped daily in every country of the world.  Not just during war time.  They are raped because they are smaller than men, and not as physically strong.  In other words, women in every country of the world are raped every day because men can.

Answer 9

They are not the only women to get raped in times of war.

It is happening every day, right now even, in the Congo of Africa. The rebel soldiers doing the raping are often carriers of the AIDS virus as well.

I imagine that is happening other places as well.

Answer 10

it happened everywhere Japan invaded

it's just that China had big population, therefore more victims

if tornado hits New York and North Pole at the same time

which place would have bigger casualty? NY, of course

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Plus, rape is a very common factor of warfare

<Warfare without raping women would be a very exceptional case, and I haven't heard any>

Crusades raped Muslim women

Germans raped French/Russian women, and later their husbands paid back by raping German women

Britains raped American women

Chinese raped Vietnamese women in 16th century

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It is a terrible fact, but also a clear truth

Remember the news, that US soldiers raped Iraq girl?

Answer 11

You think Europeans mostly look alike, because of luck?

THAT'S part of human evolution.. for 100,000s of years.

(and it wasn't millions of women, take it easy & have a heart.. the Japanese were RUTHLESS to Chinese, and babies absolutely were bayoneted for sport, tossed from soldiers onto bayonets in front of women, before they were raped.. it's a terrible part of that history, there)

Answer 12

You need to read more History, pillage and rape were commom forms, of taking over a country or territory. From the earliest wars.

The Greeks did it, the Egyptions did it, as did the Romans,.

World War two in Europe where the Germans did it to the Russians, who when they entered Germany, repeated that raping.  

Answer 13

they get raped in third world countries also its that women overseas in some places are thought of less then dogs.