<P> Historians Eiji Takemae and Robert Ricketts state that "When US paratroopers landed in Sapporo, an orgy of looting, sexual violence and drunken brawling ensued . Gang rapes and other sex atrocities were not infrequent" and some of the rape victims committed suicide . </P> <P> General Robert L. Eichelberger, the commander of the U.S. Eighth Army, recorded that in the one instance when the Japanese formed a self - help vigilante guard to protect women from off - duty GIs, the Eighth Army ordered armored vehicles in battle array into the streets and arrested the leaders, and the leaders received long prison terms . </P> <P> According to Takemae and Ricketts, members of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) were also involved in rapes: </P> <P> A former prostitute recalled that as soon as Australian troops arrived in Kure in early 1946, they "dragged young women into their jeeps, took them to the mountain, and then raped them . I heard them screaming for help nearly every night' . Such behavior was commonplace, but news of criminal activity by Occupation forces was quickly suppressed . </P>

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