Over 100,000 women were victims of forced prostitution - Japanese military prostitution - during World War II. This is their story. Unlike other war atrocities, the surviving comfort women were too ashamed to tell their stories, playing into the hands of a determined Japanese government cover-up. However, nearly 50 years after the war, the women began to speak up, scholars delved into archives, a key Japanese official confessed and the story came tumbling out, ultimately forcing the Japanese government to admit its big lie.
George Hicks is an economist and writer with a lifetime's experience in Asia. He divides his time between Singapore and Australia.
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Softcover. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Maps to endpapers. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xxi, 265pages. The story of sex slaves of the Japanese Imperial Forces. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 287995
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Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 265 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Allen & Unwin, Australia, 1995. First Edition. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Edges of covers have superficial edgewear and corners are moderately bumped. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Over 100,000 women across Asia were victims of enforced prostitution by the Japanese Imperial Forces during World War II. Until as recently as 1993 the Japanese government continued to deny this shameful aspect of its wartime history. In 1938 the Japanese Imperial Forces established a 'comfort station' in Shanghai. This was the first of many officially sanctioned brothels set up across Asia to service the needs of the Japanese forces. It was also the first comfort station where women, many in their early teens, were coaxed, tricked and forcibly recruited to act as prostitutes for the Japanese military. Using official documents and other original sources never before available, George Hicks tells how well-established and well-organised the comfort system was across the Japanese Empire, and how complete was its cover-up. He also traces the fight by Japanese and Korean feminist and liberal groups to expose the truth and tells of the complicity of the Japanese government in maintaining the lie. The Comfort Women is an account of a shameful aspect of Japanese racial and gender politics. The Comfort Women allows the victims of this unacknowledged war crime to tell their own stories powerfully and poignantly; to speak of their shame and the full magnitude and brutality of the system. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Military & Warfare; ISBN: 1863737278. ISBN/EAN: 9781863737272. Inventory No: 19070047. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 19070047
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Endpaper maps, black and white photographic plates, xxi + 265pp, index, a very good paperback copy. The story of the officially sanctioned brothels and the women who were forced to work as sex slaves in them during the Second World War. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 178317
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Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Size: 8"-9" Tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Military & Warfare; ISBN: 1863737278. ISBN/EAN: 9781863737272. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 44949. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 44949
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