Japan's Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution During World War II and the US OccupationJapan'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. |
Contents
The origins of the comfort women system | 8 |
A rapid increase in comfort stations after the Rape of Nanjing | 12 |
The organizational structure of the comfort women system | 19 |
Why comfort women? | 28 |
Procurement of comfort women and their lives as sexual slaves | 33 |
Procurement of Korean and Taiwanese women | 37 |
Procurement of women in China and the Philippines | 44 |
Life as a comfort woman | 50 |
Military prostitution in the Caribbean Australia and elsewhere | 99 |
Criticism coverup and a change in the War Departments attitude | 106 |
Sexual violence committed by the Allied occupation forces against Japanese women 19451946 | 110 |
Fear and confusion before the landing of the Allied occupation forces | 112 |
Official reports on sexual violence committed by the occupation forces against Japanese women | 116 |
Testimonies of victims of sexual violence committed by the occupation troops | 127 |
Japanese comfort women for the Allied occupation forces | 133 |
The Recreation and Amusement Association | 141 |
Comfort women in the Dutch East Indies | 61 |
Exploitation of existing prostitutes by the Japanese troops | 64 |
Procurement of Dutch women | 67 |
Enforced prostitution at comfort stations in Semarang | 72 |
The Dutch military authorities9 indifference towards Indonesian comfort women | 77 |
Why did the US forces ignore the comfort women issue? | 84 |
US military policies on the prevention of venereal disease in World War II | 87 |
The Brumfield Report and militarycontrolled prostitution | 92 |
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Japan's Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution During World War II ... Toshiyuki Tanaka No preview available - 2002 |