Japan's Comfort Women, 1st Edition
Sexual slavery and prostitution during World War II and the US occupation
- Paperback
232 pages
- Release Date
21 December 2001
Summary
Japan’s Comfort Women tells the 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, Tanaka for the first time links military controlled prositution with enforced prostitution. He uncovers new and controversial information about the role of US occupation forces in military controlled prostitution, as well as the subsequent “cover-up” of the existe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780415194013 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0415194016 |
| Author: | Yuki Tanaka |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 21 December 2001 |
| Weight: | 380g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
| Series: | Asia's Transformations (Paperback) |
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Critics Review
‘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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Yuki Tanaka
Tanaka, Yuki
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