Japanese Use of Forced Prostitution
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This paper is a critical examination and analysis of several works regarding the role and use of forced prostitution by the Japanese during and immediately following World War II. During the war, the Japanese army forced Korean and other Asian women into military sexual slavery to serve its soldiers, and this organized trafficking system of "comfort women" has become a widely publicized subject. Less well examined are the "RAA comfort women," Japanese women who were forced into prostitution to serve the occupying forces following Japan's defeat. Although prostitution and militarization of civilian women have been practiced by many societies throughout history, the Japanese army's systematic, well-organized, and inhumane system of military sex slavery reached a new level of exploitation. Much about these women remains unrecognized and unexamined, and these writings shed some much-needed light on a very dark subject. Sheldon Garon (1993, June) traces the roots of the state's involvement in prostitution in Japan in "The World's Oldest Debate?" He contends, "The history of licensed prostitution in Imperial Japan . . . bespeaks the state's fervent commitment to 'social management'" (p. 711). He chronicles the facts of the state's attempts to control and regulate the world's oldest profession and considers why the movement to abolish such practices failed in the emergence of a competing cafT culture before the second world war. Garon (1993, June) argues that the state's
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t-war cultural landscape. "Cultures of Defeat" starts to move the discussion beyond a detailed historical account and begins to suggest the larger meanings of the subject. This is a complex topic. The destruction of many of the related documents demands considerable work for the researcher. These writings give a place to start.
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Chung, S. S. (1997). The origin and development of the military sexual slavery problem in Imperial Japan. In ___, pp. 219-233. ___: Duke University Press. (Incomplete article provided; additional pages missing.)
Dowar, J. ( ). Culture of defeat. In __, Embracing defeat, pp. 121-167. ___: ___.
Garon, S. (1993, June). The world's oldest debate? Prostitution and the state in Imperial Japan, 1900-1945. American Historical Review, __( ), 710-731. (Incomplete article provided; duplicate pages at the end and additional pages missing.)
Oh, B. B. C. ( ). The Japanese imperial system and the Korean "comfort women" of World War II. In __, pp. 2-25. _: _.
Tanaka, Y. ( ). Rape and war: The Japanese experience. In __, pp. 79-109. __: ___. (Incomplete article provided; additional pages missing.)
Tanaka, Y. (2002). Japan's comfort women: Sexual slavery and prostitution dur
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