Evidence that foreign women were forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military during World War Two has been found at the National Archives of Japan. 
 
On request by a civic group to disclose the information, the archives recently unveiled an official document showing Japanese troops forced 35 Dutch women detained in a prisoner camp in Indonesia to serve as so-called comfort women.
 
The 530-page document includes court records convicting five former Japanese officers and four civilians of rape in Indonesia after the war was over. It also includes defendant testimonies made in Japan at a later time.
 
A former Japanese Army lieutenant general was one of the convicted and received a 12 year sentence. The record states the lieutenant general was ordered by an officer in 1944 to take the Dutch women detained on the island of Java to four brothels where he threatened them into prostitution.
 
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe remains unchanged in his stance that statements directly showing the women were forced into the brothels by the Japanese military are not in the records.