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Comfort women
sexual slavery in the Japanese military during World War II
By Yoshimi, Yoshiaki & O'Brien, Suzanne
- ISBN
- 978-0-23112-032-6
- Publisher
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2000.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2001
During the Asia Pacific War (1931-45), the Japanese government forced up to 200,000 Korean, Taiwanese, Indonesian, and other young Asian women to work as so-called comfort women, providing sexual services for the armed forces of Imperial Japan. Yoshiaki's invaluable study explodes the claims of right-wing Japanese nationalists that comfort women were merely wartime prostitutes. Citing official milita...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
