Japan's Comfort Women: Sexual slavery and prostitution during World War II and the US occupation (Asia's Transformations) - Hardcover

Tanaka, Yuki

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9780415194006: Japan's Comfort Women: Sexual slavery and prostitution during World War II and the US occupation (Asia's Transformations)
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ISBN 10: 0415194008 ISBN 13: 9780415194006
Publisher: Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

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 forces did little to help the women, and argues that military authorities organised prostitution to prevent the widespread incidence of GI rape of Japanese women, and to control the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.

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Tanaka, Yuki

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415194008
ISBN 13 
9780415194006
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
232
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