Korean "Comfort Women" : : Military Brothels, Brutality, and the Redress Movement / / Pyong Gap Min.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• VerfasserIn: Min, Pyong Gap,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (286 p.) :; 16 b-w images, 28 tables

Arguably the most brutal crime committed by the Japanese military during the Asia-Pacific war was the forced mobilization of 50,000 to 200,000 Asian women to military brothels to sexually serve Japanese soldiers. The majority of these women died, unable to survive the ordeal. Those survivors who cam...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Chronology
• Introduction: Background Information about Japanese Military Sexual Slavery and the Redress Movement for the Victims
• Chapter 1 Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks
• Chapter 2 Enough Information, but the Issue Was Buried for Half a Century
• Chapter 3 The Emergence of the “Comfort Women” Issue and Victims’ Breaking Silence
• Chapter 4 General Information about the “Comfort Women” System
• Chapter 5 Forced Mobilization of “Comfort Women”
• Chapter 6 Payments of Fees and Affectionate Relationships
• Chapter 7 Sexual Exploitation, Violence, and Threats at “Comfort Stations”
• Chapter 8 The Perils of Korean “Comfort Women’s” Homecoming Trips
• Chapter 9 Korean “Comfort Women’s” Lives in Korea and China
• Chapter 10 Progress of the Redress Movement in Korea
• Chapter 11 Divided Responses to the Redress Movement in Japan
• Chapter 12 Responses to the Redress Movement in the United States
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• References
• Index
• About the Author