HONG Yunshin, Ph.D. Waseda University (2012), teaches, speaks, and writes on women and sexual violence in war and Okinawa. Her representative work is Koreans and the Politics of “Sex and Life” during the Battle of Okinawa (Inpakuto Shuppankai, 2016, Japanese).

• List of Figures, Maps and TablesEditorial NoteIntroduction: Witness to ViolencePART 1: CAPITAL AND COMFORT STATIONS1.The Daitō Islands: Comfort Stations in a Plantation Society PART 2: COMFORT STATIONS MOVE INTO THE VILLAGES2. The Okinawan War and Comfort Stations: An Overview (1944-45)3. Iejima Airfield and Its Comfort Stations4. Springboard for Invasion: Yomitan Airfield and Its Comfort Stations5. Kadena Airfield: From Auxiliary Airstrip to “Keystone of the Pacific”6. South-Central Okinawa: Bloody Battlegrounds, Unfinished Airbases, and Comfort Stations PART 3: COMFORT STATIONS ON ISLANDS “INVADED” AND “NOT INVADED”7. The Comfort Stations of Northern Okinawa8. Premonitions of a Ground War and the Fear of Rape9. Another Face of War: Miyakojima and the Battle against Hunger Epilogue: "Comfort Stations" as Sites of RemembranceAppendix: Okinawa in South Korean ScholarshipAfterwordReferencesIndex

HONG Yunshin, Ph.D. Waseda University (2012), teaches, speaks, and writes on women and sexual violence in war and Okinawa. Her representative work is Koreans and the Politics of “Sex and Life” during the Battle of Okinawa (Inpakuto Shuppankai, 2016, Japanese).

• List of Figures, Maps and TablesEditorial NoteIntroduction: Witness to ViolencePART 1: CAPITAL AND COMFORT STATIONS1.The Daitō Islands: Comfort Stations in a Plantation Society PART 2: COMFORT STATIONS MOVE INTO THE VILLAGES2. The Okinawan War and Comfort Stations: An Overview (1944-45)3. Iejima Airfield and Its Comfort Stations4. Springboard for Invasion: Yomitan Airfield and Its Comfort Stations5. Kadena Airfield: From Auxiliary Airstrip to “Keystone of the Pacific”6. South-Central Okinawa: Bloody Battlegrounds, Unfinished Airbases, and Comfort Stations PART 3: COMFORT STATIONS ON ISLANDS “INVADED” AND “NOT INVADED”7. The Comfort Stations of Northern Okinawa8. Premonitions of a Ground War and the Fear of Rape9. Another Face of War: Miyakojima and the Battle against Hunger Epilogue: "Comfort Stations" as Sites of RemembranceAppendix: Okinawa in South Korean ScholarshipAfterwordReferencesIndex