{"product_id":"comfort-women-9780231120333","title":"Comfort Women","description":"\u003cp\u003eAvailable for the first time in English  this is the definitive account of the practice of sexual slavery the Japanese military perpetrated during World War II by the researcher principally responsible for exposing the Japanese governments responsibility for these atrocities. The large scale imprisonment and rape of thousands of women  who were euphemistically called \"comfort women\" by the Japanese military  first seized public attention in 1991 when three Korean women filed suit in a Toyko District Court stating that they had been forced into sexual servitude and demanding compensation. Since then the comfort stations and their significance have been the subject of ongoing debate and intense activism in Japan  much if it inspired by Yoshimis investigations. How large a role did the military  and by extension the government  play in setting up and administering these camps? What type of compensation  if any  are the victimized women due? These issues figure prominently in the current Japanese focus on public memory and arguments about the teaching and writing of history and are central to efforts to transform Japanese ways of remembering the war.  Yoshimi Yoshiaki provides a wealth of documentation and testimony to prove the existence of some 2 000 centers where as many as 200 000 Korean  Filipina  Taiwanese  Indonesian  Burmese  Dutch  Australian  and some Japanese women were restrained for months and forced to engage in sexual activity with Japanese military personnel. Many of the women were teenagers  some as young as fourteen. To date  the Japanese government has neither admitted responsibility for creating the comfort station system nor given compensation directly to former comfort women.  This English edition updates the Japanese edition originally published in 1995 and includes introductions by both the author and the translator placing the story in context for American readers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648093741109,"sku":"ByrdShop_0231120338","price":30.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/comfort-women-9780231120333","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}