Table of Contents

Introduction: The First Victims 1. Scapegoat Survivors: Japanese Comfort Women and the Contemporary Justice Movement 2. The Taisho Democratisation of Prostitution 3. The 1930s’ Militarisation of Civilian Prostitution 4. The Military Democratisation of Prostitution 5. Japan’s Imperial Sex Industries and the Trafficking of Colonial Prostituted Women into Comfort Stations 6. Okinawan Prostituted Women and Comfort Stations at War’s End Conclusion: Sexual Slavery and the Crucible of Contemporary Japan Index

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This book examines the development of the Japanese military's 'comfort women' system of sexual slavery that operated during the China and Pacific wars.

About the Author

Caroline Norma is Lecturer in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

Reviews

Making abundant use of survivor testimony - Japanese victims included - Caroline Norma makes clear the need to continue to learn from the violence endemic to Japan's history of state-sponsored sexual slavery many decades ago. The current day incidences of sexual slavery as a weapon of war makes this history more urgent than ever.
*Alexis Dudden, University of Connecticut, USA*