| Uniform title |
Jūgun ianfu. English
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| Physical description |
253 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Asia perspectives. |
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Asia perspectives.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-242) and index. |
| Contents |
Emergence of the Issue 33 -- 1. Course and Conditions of the Establishment of the Military Comfort Station System: From the First Shanghai Incident to the Start of All-Out War in China 42 -- 2. Expansion Into Southeast Asia and the Pacific: The Period of the Asia Pacific War 76 -- 3. How Were the Women Rounded Up? Comfort Women's Testimonies and Soldiers' Recollections 98 -- 4. Lives Comfort Women Were Forced to Lead 130 -- 5. Violations of International Law and War Crime Trials 152 -- 6. Conditions After the Defeat 178. |
| Summary |
Yoshimi Yoshiaki provides a wealth of documentation and testimony to prove the existence of some 2,000 "comfort stations" where as many as 200,000 women of varying nationalities, euphemistically known as "comfort women, " were imprisoned and forced to engage in sexual activity with Japanese military personnel. |
| Other author |
O'Brien, Suzanne.
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| Subject |
Comfort women -- Asia.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Asia.
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| ISBN |
023112032X (case : alkaline paper) |
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