What does Pan Pan mean in Japanese?

This term originated from the US military’s derogatory term for Japanese women.

After World War II, the military discipline of the US military was extremely poor.

The same is true for the military discipline of the US military stationed in Japan, especially regarding style issues. From time to time, incidents of rape of women occur.

But the U.S. military has a harder fist after all. The Japanese nationality is to admire the strong, and it is impossible to drive away the Americans. So in order to reduce the occurrence of U.S. military rapes of women, the Japanese government thought of what they did during World War II. The crooked trick used in establishing "comfort stations".

In World War II, Japan could forcibly recruit women from other countries as comfort women, but now that it is a defeated country, it can only recruit women from its own country. Of course, it was not easy for the government to intervene in this matter. Only the gangs came forward to pimp them, so the team of so-called incense makers quickly grew. At that time, the gang advertised in Japanese newspapers

The slogan was: "Be a new woman - the foreign-related club is recruiting female clerks, food, accommodation and clothing are provided, high income, limited to women between 18 and 25 years old." In fact, the essence of these clubs is to legalize the pornographic industry, and they are places specifically for domestic women to prostitute themselves to the US military. According to statistics, the number of Japanese women recruited by gangs sometimes reaches 60,000.

At the same time, it is indeed unseemly for the U.S. military headquarters to report rape cases all day long. At the same time, the U.S. government pays U.S. soldiers a large amount of entertainment fees, amounting to 35 million U.S. dollars a year. However, these U.S. troops only enjoyed it for one year. , by 1946, many American soldiers had the same disease as their commander-in-chief MacArthur (MacArthur had syphilis). As a result, the wives of American soldiers stopped working and cursed MacArthur and united to protest against the US military stationed in Japan. The command acted laissez-faire and stated that the comfort stations must be closed for the future of the United States. The power of American women was very strong. Soon MacArthur ordered the Japanese government to close the comfort stations. Of course, this kind of comfort stations were officially closed. But the Japanese women who worked there made a living in different ways.

There were many slang words during this period, such as "Pan Pan", which was used by American soldiers to describe Japanese women with small breasts. "Pan" (pan) has the same meaning as the airport used today to describe women's breasts, but panpan specifically refers to Japanese ladies of that period

It means low-chested Asian prostitutes.