Japanese Comfort Women and Sexual Slavery during the China and Pacific Wars

AvCaroline Norma,Stephen McVeigh

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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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 justice and reparations for 'comfort women' since the early 1990s have highlighted the magnitude of the human rights crimes committed against Korean, Chinese and other Asian women by Japanese soldiers after they invaded the Chinese mainland in 1937. These campaigns, however, say little about the origins of the system or its initial victims.The Japanese Comfort Women and Sexual Slavery during the China and Pacific Wars explores the origins of the Japanese military's system of sexual slavery and illustrates how Japanese women were its initial victims.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-12-17
Mått:156 x 236 x 20 mm
Vikt:560 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:War, Culture and Society
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781472512475

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

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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.

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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