<P> One of the last eugenic measures of the Shōwa regime was taken by the Higashikuni government . On 19 August 1945, the Home Ministry ordered local government offices to establish a prostitution service for Allied soldiers to preserve the "purity" of the "Japanese race". The official declaration stated that: "Through the sacrifice of thousands of "Okichis" of the Shōwa era, we shall construct a dike to hold back the mad frenzy of the occupation troops and cultivate and preserve the purity of our race long into the future ..." </P> <P> According to Peter Schrijvers in "The GI War against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific during World War II", rape "reflects a burning need to establish total dominance of the enemy". According to Xavier Guillaume, US soldiers' rape of Japanese women was "general practice". Schrijvers states regarding rapes on Okinawa that "The estimate of one Okinawan historian for the entire three - month period of the campaign exceeds 10,000 . A figure that does not seem unlikely when one realizes that during the first 10 days of the occupation of Japan there were 1,336 reported cases of rape of Japanese women by American soldiers in Kanagawa prefecture alone". </P> <P> However, despite being told by the Japanese military that they would suffer rape, torture and murder at the hands of the Americans, Japanese civilians "were often surprised at the comparatively humane treatment they received from the American enemy ." According to Islands of Discontent: Okinawan Responses to Japanese and American Power by Mark Selden, the Americans "did not pursue a policy of torture, rape, and murder of civilians as Japanese military officials had warned ." </P> <P> Japanese society, with its ideology of homogeneity, has traditionally been intolerant of ethnic and other differences . Men or women of mixed ancestry, foreigners, and members of minority groups face discrimination in a variety of forms . In 2005, a United Nations report expressed concerns about racism in Japan and that government recognition of the depth of the problem was not realistic . In 2005, Japanese Minister Taro Aso called Japan a "one race" nation . </P>

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