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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Toshiyuki Tanaka |
ISBN: | 9780415194006 0415194008 9780415194013 0415194016 |
OCLC Number: | 47785668 |
Description: | xix, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | The origins of the comfort women system -- Procurement of comfort women and their lives as sexual slaves -- Comfort women in the Dutch East Indies -- Why did the US forces ignore the comfort women issue -- Sexual violence committed by the Allied occupation forces against Japanese women: 1945-1946 -- Japanese comfort women for the Allied occupation forces. |
Series Title: | Asia's transformations. |
Responsibility: | Yuki Tanaka. |
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'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. Read more...

