Caroline Norma is Lecturer in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

Making abundant use of survivor testimony - Japanese victims included - Caroline Norma makes clear the need to continue to learn from the violence endemic to Japan's history of state-sponsored sexual slavery many decades ago. The current day incidences of sexual slavery as a weapon of war makes this history more urgent than ever.

• Introduction: The First Victims1. Scapegoat Survivors: Japanese Comfort Women and the Contemporary Justice Movement2. The Taisho Democratisation of Prostitution3. The 1930s’ Militarisation of Civilian Prostitution4. The Military Democratisation of Prostitution5. Japan’s Imperial Sex Industries and the Trafficking of Colonial Prostituted Women into Comfort Stations6. Okinawan Prostituted Women and Comfort Stations at War’s EndConclusion: Sexual Slavery and the Crucible of Contemporary JapanIndex

Caroline Norma is Lecturer in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

Making abundant use of survivor testimony - Japanese victims included - Caroline Norma makes clear the need to continue to learn from the violence endemic to Japan's history of state-sponsored sexual slavery many decades ago. The current day incidences of sexual slavery as a weapon of war makes this history more urgent than ever.

• Introduction: The First Victims1. Scapegoat Survivors: Japanese Comfort Women and the Contemporary Justice Movement2. The Taisho Democratisation of Prostitution3. The 1930s’ Militarisation of Civilian Prostitution4. The Military Democratisation of Prostitution5. Japan’s Imperial Sex Industries and the Trafficking of Colonial Prostituted Women into Comfort Stations6. Okinawan Prostituted Women and Comfort Stations at War’s EndConclusion: Sexual Slavery and the Crucible of Contemporary JapanIndex

Caroline Norma is Lecturer in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

Making abundant use of survivor testimony - Japanese victims included - Caroline Norma makes clear the need to continue to learn from the violence endemic to Japan's history of state-sponsored sexual slavery many decades ago. The current day incidences of sexual slavery as a weapon of war makes this history more urgent than ever.

• Introduction: The First Victims1. Scapegoat Survivors: Japanese Comfort Women and the Contemporary Justice Movement2. The Taisho Democratisation of Prostitution3. The 1930s’ Militarisation of Civilian Prostitution4. The Military Democratisation of Prostitution5. Japan’s Imperial Sex Industries and the Trafficking of Colonial Prostituted Women into Comfort Stations6. Okinawan Prostituted Women and Comfort Stations at War’s EndConclusion: Sexual Slavery and the Crucible of Contemporary JapanIndex