Description: Comfort Women by Yoshiaki Yoshimi, Suzanne O'Brien Yoshimi provides a wealth of documentation and testimony to prove the existence of some 2,000 "comfort stations" where as many as 200,000 women of varying nationalities, euphemistically known as "comfort women," were imprisoned and forced to engage in sexual activity with Japanese military personnel. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Available for the first time in English, this is the definitive account of the practice of sexual slavery the Japanese military perpetrated during World War II by the researcher principally responsible for exposing the Japanese governments responsibility for these atrocities. The large scale imprisonment and rape of thousands of women, who were euphemistically called "comfort women" by the Japanese military, first seized public attention in 1991 when three Korean women filed suit in a Toyko District Court stating that they had been forced into sexual servitude and demanding compensation. Since then the comfort stations and their significance have been the subject of ongoing debate and intense activism in Japan, much if it inspired by Yoshimis investigations. How large a role did the military, and by extension the government, play in setting up and administering these camps? What type of compensation, if any, are the victimized women due? These issues figure prominently in the current Japanese focus on public memory and arguments about the teaching and writing of history and are central to efforts to transform Japanese ways of remembering the war.Yoshimi Yoshiaki provides a wealth of documentation and testimony to prove the existence of some 2,000 centers where as many as 200,000 Korean, Filipina, Taiwanese, Indonesian, Burmese, Dutch, Australian, and some Japanese women were restrained for months and forced to engage in sexual activity with Japanese military personnel. Many of the women were teenagers, some as young as fourteen. To date, the Japanese government has neither admitted responsibility for creating the comfort station system nor given compensation directly to former comfort women.This English edition updates the Japanese edition originally published in 1995 and includes introductions by both the author and the translator placing the story in context for American readers. Notes From the Japanese historian who unearthed the evidence comes this chilling account of wartime atrocities -- to be published just as an international tribunal in Tokyo on violence against women shines a spotlight on the survivors Author Biography Yoshimi Yoshiaki is professor of modern Japanese history at Chuo University in Tokyo, and a founding member of the Center for Research and Documentation of Japans War Responsibility. Table of Contents Translators Introduction Authors Introduction to the English Edition The Emergence of the Issue 1. The Course and Conditions of the Establishment of the Military Comfort Station System: From the First Shanghai Incident to the Start of All-Out War in China 2. Expansion Into Southeast Asia and the Pacific: The Period of the Asia Pacific War 3. How Were the Women Rounded Up? Comfort Womens Testimonies and Soldiers Recollections 4. The Lives Comfort Women Were Forced to Lead 5. Violations of International Law and War Crime Trials 6. Conditions After the Defeat Conclusion Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index Review "Comfort Womens command of documentary materials makes it a landmark for historians, human rights activists and general readers..." - Los Angeles Times Book Review "Crucial reading." - Katha Pollitt, The Nation Promotional Yoshimi provides a wealth of documentation and testimony to prove the existence of some 2,000 "comfort stations" where as many as 200,000 women of varying nationalities, euphemistically known as "comfort women," were imprisoned and forced to engage in sexual activity with Japanese military personnel. Review Quote "Yoshimi, a reputable historian/scholar... has meticulously sleuthed out chronological data, exposing from its bitter outset that sordid, endless business of sexual slavery. Yoshimis account extends to the essence of feminist political purpose... The book makes solid headway toward legitimizing his demands for public access to still-secret documents; acknowledging and apologizing for all violations of international law and war crimes and for failure to punish guilty parties; rehabilitating and compensating victims... A vigorous work, enhanced by a precise, graceful translation." -- Choice Promotional "Headline" Yoshimi provides a wealth of documentation and testimony to prove the existence of some 2,000 "comfort stations" where as many as 200,000 women of varying nationalities, euphemistically known as "comfort women," were imprisoned and forced to engage in sexual activity with Japanese military personnel. Description for Sales People From the Japanese historian who unearthed the evidence comes this chilling account of wartime atrocities -- to be published just as an international tribunal in Tokyo on violence against women shines a spotlight on the survivors Details ISBN0231120338 Pages 262 Publisher Columbia University Press Language English ISBN-10 0231120338 ISBN-13 9780231120333 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2002 Translator Suzanne OBrien Imprint Columbia University Press Subtitle Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War II Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Translated from Japanese Short Title COMFORT WOMEN REV/E Edition Description Revised DOI 10.1604/9780231120333 UK Release Date 2002-09-04 NZ Release Date 2002-09-04 US Release Date 2002-09-04 Author Suzanne OBrien Series Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture Publication Date 2002-09-04 DEWEY 940.54050952 Illustrations 4 halftones, 3 illus Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2002-09-03 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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ISBN-13: 9780231120333
Book Title: Comfort Women
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 2002
Subject: History
Number of Pages: 262 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War II
Type: Textbook
Author: Yoshiaki Yoshimi
Format: Paperback