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Japan's Comfort Women book cover

1st Edition

Japan's Comfort Women

By Yuki Tanaka Copyright 2002
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge
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Japan's Comfort Women tells the harrowing story of the "comfort women" who were forced to enter prostitution to serve the Japanese Imperial army, often living in appalling conditions of sexual slavery. Using a wide range of primary sources, the author for the first time links military controlled prostitution with enforced prostitution. He uncovers new and controversial information about the... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 The origins of the comfort women system; Chapter 2 Procurement of comfort women and their lives as sexual slaves; Chapter 3 Comfort women in the Dutch East Indies; Chapter 4 Why did the US forces ignore the comfort women issue?; Chapter 5 Sexual violence committed by the Allied occupation forces against Japanese women: 1945–1946; Chapter 6 Japanese comfort women for the Allied occupation forces; Epilogue; Notes; Index;

Biography

Tanaka, Yuki

'One of the achievements of this volume is that it successfully personalises some of the 'comfort' women. It exhaustively details the inhumane process by which they were 'recruited' or forced into what amounted to sexual slavery and the degrading day-to-day treatment meted out to them by recruiters, managers and soldiers if the women refused to 'comfort' soldiers, became pregnant or were ill. Even more significantly, this volume attempts to establish the figures that helped to implement the 'comfort' women system, including senior Japanese military officers, Ministry of War bureaucrats, brothel owners and their recruiters and medical staff.'
- Intersections, Issue 9.

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