The Recreation and Amusement Association (特殊慰安施設協会 Tokushu Ian Shisetsu Kyōkai (Special Comfort Facility Association) (RAA) was the largest of the organizations established by the Occupied Japan to provide organized prostitution for preventing rapes and sexual violence 。and other leisure facilities for occupying Allied troops immediately following World War II . The RAA "recruited" 55,000 women and was short-lived, lasting just over four months until January 1946.