| Physical description |
1 online resource (xx, 212 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Asia's transformations |
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Asia's transformations.
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| Notes |
"First published 2002 by Routledge"--Title page verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-205) and index. |
| Contents |
1. The origins of the comfort women system -- 2. Procurement of comfort women and their lives as sexual slaves -- 3. Comfort women in the Dutch East Indies -- 4. Why did the US forces ignore the comfort women issue -- 5. Sexual violence committed by the Allied occupation forces against Japanese women: 1945-1946 -- 6. Japanese comfort women for the Allied occupation forces. |
| Summary |
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 role of the US' occupation forces in military controlled prostitution, as well as the subsequent ""cover-up"" of the existence of such a policy. This groundbreaking book asks why US occupation |
| Subject |
Comfort women -- Asia.
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Soldiers -- Sexual behavior -- Japan.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Asia.
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Soldiers -- Sexual behavior -- United States.
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Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952.
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Electronic books. |
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History |
| ISBN |
0203302753 (electronic bk.) |
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9780203302750 (electronic bk.) |
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9780415194006 |
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0415194008 |
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9780415194013 |
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0415194016 |
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0415194008 (Cloth) |
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0415194016 (Paper) |
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