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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Japan's Comfort Women Sexual Slavery and Prostitution During World War II and the Us Occupation by Y Japan's Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution During World War II and the Us Occupation by Yuki Tanaka. Our systems have detected unusual traffic activity from your network. Please complete this reCAPTCHA to demonstrate that it's you making the requests and not a robot. If you are having trouble seeing or completing this challenge, this page may help. If you continue to experience issues, you can contact JSTOR support. Block Reference: #8e04cf40-d090-11eb-839c-9597ffbb61b8 VID: #(null) IP: 116.202.236.252 Date and time: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 23:54:44 GMT. Japan's Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution During World War II and the Us Occupation by Yuki Tanaka. During World War II, many atrocities occurred and no nation escaped untarnished. Many of these crimes are well known. Others have faded into the background - in some cases simply because no one cared, and in others because those that suffered were too ashamed of what had been done to them to tell their story. One such atrocity was the enforced sexual slavery of an untold number of women. During World War II, and continuing under the US Occupation of Japan, the Japanese forced, or tricked, women from a variety of countries into forced prostitution. Their job, to service the sexual desires of Japanese soldiers. In Japan's Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution During World War II and the US Occupation Yuki Tanaka takes an honest and in- depth look at the history of Japan's Comfort Women. Tanaka delves into the circumstances that caused the Army to begin to use Comfort Women - including wanting to increase the moral of the men, to maintain army discipline, to prevent the wholesale rape of the women in overrun communities, and as a means of preventing the spread of VD and other sexually transmitted diseases. The Japanese Navy also had their own 'form' of comfort women, euphemistically called special staff . As Tanaka points out, at first the army used professional prostitutes, but as the 'need' increased, they found that professionals could not longer meet the demand. To fill this gap, ordinary women, and even young girls, where forcefully taken, or tricked, into becoming an inmate at a comfort station. In this monumental work, Tanaka describes the various types of comfort stations that existed during the war, the duties the women were forced to perform - and the punishments if they did not obey. Tanaka also describes who the comfort women were. While many were from Korea (a Japanese colony at the time), the Japanese also forced women from just about every country they entered to serve as sexual slaves. Into the mix were also found numerous Western women captured by the Japanese. However, in each area, the Japanese tailored their 'recruitment' methods to maximum advantage - including bargaining for the women, i.e., give us so many women and your village will be spared. The comfort women suffered much more than physical abuse and rape. They also faced the prospect of forced abortions, venereal disease, and worse - shame. To make matter worse, after the war many of these women where unable to return home due to lack of funds, others because they did not want to shame their families by returning 'tarnished' even through no fault of their own. Many of these women kept their horrid secret for decades, and it is only recently that a number of women have begun to speak out about what happened to them. Tanaka has done much to unbiasedly tell the story of the comfort women, and the culpability that other nations had in fostering, even sanctioning, the continuation of the slavery of many women - even after the war ended. Perhaps the most controversial topic covered in this book is the information concerning the prosecutions that followed the war. When it came to the enslavement of Asian comfort women, the allies, namely the US, looked the other way. However, when they discovered a Western, i.e., white women, had been thus abused, they went after the offenders with every means at their disposal. This indifference to the plight of the Asian comfort women was perhaps as insidious as the abuse of their bodies had been, for it told them in clear and uncertain terms that they did not matter! It is little wonder that so many of these women bore their secret in silence and shame. In this work, Tanaka does not simply list the various crimes committed against the women, but also how the activities they were forced to endure affected them - both at the time and in years since. He also details the available scholarship on the subject, and attitudes in Japan, during the war and today, regarding the subject of comfort women. A monumental work of scholarship, Japan's Comfort Women includes a comprehensive list of end notes. Related Reviews: The Floating Brothel , By Sian Rees. The extraordinary story of an eighteenth-century ship and its cargo of female convicts tho were transported from England to Australia. Twentieth-Century China - New Approaches , Edited by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom. Eleven compelling essays that take a 'new' look at Contemporary Chinese history. Japan's Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution During World War II and the Us Occupation by Yuki Tanaka. ASIAN COMFORT WOMEN - WORLD WAR II PERIOD - SEXUAL SLAVERY. Link to Associated Press Article by Eric Talmadge: America's Comfort Women - Tokyo Officials Kept Sex Slaves for US Occupiers. Attached is a Photo Copy of the Memorandum for the Members of the Third Fleet Naval Landing Force Regiment - US Navy - By Commandier L. T. Malone. September 29th, 2007. Trafficking is A Long Standing Crime - US Troop Use of Japan�s Trafficked Women 1945. - Lys Anzia - WNN - Women News Network. Trafficking of women for forced sexual use is a long standing crime. The United States was also guilty of involvement in these acts immediately following World War II in Japan. According to an April 25, 2007 Associated Press article about US involvement with Japanese brothels in 1945, by Eric Talmadge, �An Associated Press review of historical documents and records shows American authorities permitted the official brothel system to operate despite internal reports that women were being coerced into prostitution. The Americans also had full knowledge by then of Japan�s atrocious treatment of women in countries across Asia that it conquered during the war.� On the days of Japanese surrender to the United States after the devastation of World War II and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, records show that Japan�s Ibaraki Prefectural Police Department, the Kempeitai, which had been in charge of forced prostitution during the war, set up numerous �comfort stations� for US GIs by order of the office of Japan�s Ministry of Interior on August 18, 1945. The Kempeitai were founded in 1881 as Japan�s military police force. They numbered up to 75,000 during the war and were the ongoing managers of the Japanese brothel system. One brothel called Yasu-ura House �comfort station� in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture was set up immediately by the Japanese Kempetai and Japan�s RAA � the Recreation and Amusement Association using Japanese government funds. This brothel was used for US military men flooding Japan at the end of the war on August 18, 1945. Numerous other brothels were also created. At times, the brothels were very crowded with up to 600 men standing in line. The publicly accepted logic, used by Japan�s office of the Ministry of Interior for setting up the prostitution houses, was that a strong barrier between the foreign �winners of the war� and the �good� women of Japan had to be made to save �respected� regular women from the invaders. In massive numbers women from the Philippines, Korea and China were shipped to �comfort stations� worldwide. Through this forced trafficking of women the continuing betrayal and severe suffering of the women in the brothels went on � even after the war was over. �Twelve soldiers raped me in quick succession, after which I was given half an hour rest. Then twelve more soldiers followed. They all lined up outside the room waiting for their turn. I bled so much and was in such pain, I could not even stand up. The next morning, I was too weak to get up. I could not eat. I felt much pain, and my vagina was swollen. I cried and cried, calling my mother. I could not resist the soldiers because they might kill me. So what else could I do? Every day, from two in the afternoon to ten in the evening, the soldiers lined up outside my room and the rooms of the six other women there. I did not even have time to wash after each assault. At the end of the day, I just closed my eyes and cried. My torn dress would be brittle from the crust that had formed from the soldiers� dried semen. I washed myself with hot water and a piece of cloth so I would be clean. I pressed the cloth to my vagina like a compress to relieve that pain and the swelling,� said Maria Rosa Henson, a former Filipina comfort woman, in Yuki Tanaka�s 2001 searing book, Japan�s Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution during World War II & the US Occupation . On landing in Japan, the overwhelming numbers of US troops demanding sexual service grew quickly causing Japan�s (RAA) Recreation and Amusement Association to use force and coercion to get greater and greater numbers of women for forced sex-use.

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