Between 1932 and 1945, Japan rolled out a forced prostitution system in all occupied territories in China, South East Asia, and the Pacific. An estimated 500,000 young women were taken from internment camps, kidnapped or lured away under false pretences, and put to work as ‘comfort women’. The money that visitors paid for the young women went to Japanese banks to fund the warfare. Research by Follow the Money shows that both the Dutch state and the royal family profited from this brothel money.