Enforced Prostitution in the New Guinea Campaign, 1942-1945
The Japanese military was responsible for the sexual enslavement of thousands of women and girls in Asia and the Pacific during the China and Pacific wars under the guise of providing 'comfort' for battle-weary troops. Campaigns for just...
Caroline Norma is Senior Lecturer at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. A historian of Japanese modern history and a qualified Japanese translator and interpreter, she is the author of The Japanese comfort women and sexual slavery during the China and Pacific wars (2015) and Comfort women and post-occupation corporate Japan (2018).
Introduction: Australia and the comfort women 1. Australia and the New Guinea Campaign 2. America and the New Guinea Campaign: Going for the Girls 3. Australias military labour scheme and the New Guinea Campaign 4. Australian wartime knowledge of the Japanese military comfort women 5. Japanese military prostitution in the New Guinea Campaign 6. Australian military prostitution in Japan as part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) Conclusion Notes Index