Jul 31 (Military History) - On August 14, 1945, World War II was nearing its end, and the Japanese Empire was in ruins. One day before the official surrender, the Japanese military police ordered the destruction of a series of vitally important documents.
By burning those papers, the main evidence of one of the biggest war crimes of the war was lost for decades. These were the records of thousands of women kidnapped by the Imperial Army and forced to become slaves in the service of soldiers.