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Futsukaichi rest home was a special medical facility located at Futsukaichi town (present day Chikushino city) that had been set up by the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare for several years after the end of WWII. This facility was intended to perform abortions and to treat STDs (sexually transmitted diseases; such as syphilis or gonorrhoea) for victims of rape who had escaped from Manchuria or Korea.

Background
After the end of WWII, Japanese citizens who had migrated to occupied area had to return to mainland Japan. During a repatriation from Manchuria or Korea, returnees experienced terrible tragedies such as massacre, pillage, forced labor, and rape. A survey conducted by "Busan relieving office for Japanese" (釜山日本人世話会) from December 1945 to May 1946 revealed that among 885 women surveyed about 10 percent fallen victim to a sexual assault (90 rape victims and 19 STD affected individuals). Many of them despaired over the future and committed suicide.

Setting up of the facility
In postwar Korea, the medical staff who had been belonged to the Keijo Imperial University School of Medicine offered medical services for Japanese repatriated refugees. In December 1945 the medical team was integrated with "The aid society for overseas Japanese" (在外同胞援護会), an extra-departmental body of the Ministry of Foreign affairs. As soon as the society sent medical staff to repatriation ships, they recognized a huge number of rape victims and offered the Japanese government the making of a special medical facility for treating sexually assaulted women. Even abortion was illegal in Japan at that time, the need for a facility that provided abortion to the victims was accepted as an extra-legal measure. In response to the demand, Futsukaichi rest home was opened on May 25th, 1946.

To conceal women from prying eyes, the facility was located at Futsukaichi town, a rural hot-spring area near Hakata port in Fukuoka, where the largest amount of repatriates arrived at. The building was diverted from the rest house for "Patriot women's society" (愛国婦人会). It had two floors with small compartments available to help protect patients' privacy. Two doctors and ten nurses (including three midwives) from the aid society had been engaged. Similar facilities were placed at the Kyushu Imperial University School of Medicine, National Fukuoka Sanatorium, Kurume Medical School, National Saga Sanatrium, and Nakahara Army Sanatorium in Saga.

Facility operation
How to announce the presence of the facility to the victims was a big problem. The society handed out flyers in repatriation ships but they had to mince the truth. The flyer said that: "TO MISERABLE WOMEN, ATTENTION PLEASE!; Women whose body had been damaged by an illegal violence or assault, and suffering from disorders... we will pick you up and treat you before returning to your home". For women who had already returned to Japan, an advertisement with same text was placed in influential newspapers. Later, any repatriated women aged 15 to 55 was required to go to the government office immediately after arriving in mainland Japan.

During the facility's one and half year working period, the medical team carried out over 500 abortions and treated over 500 patients of STDs. Because of the shortage of medication, patients sometimes had to accept the operation without using anesthesia and it was potentially lethal.

The facility took some surveys on the women. According to a report about the nationality of the perpetrators in June 1946 on the basis of the interviews with 47 patients who were raped and got pregnant, the great majority of the perpetrators were 28 Koreans followed by eight Russians, six Chinese, three Americans, one Filipino and Taiwanese.

The rest house had been run until fall 1947, just before the Japanese government put the Eugenic Protection Act in effect in 1948 which allows women who are poor to have an abortion.