and political climate at work that seems to have encouraged a system of forcing women, especially women from nations the Imperialist forces were trying to conquer, to submit sexually to the invading forces.
Oh examines in some detail why the majority of the women forced into service during the war were Korean. In part, she argues, this was because they were the most available in sufficient numbers to meet the needs to the troops. She ( ) writes, "Japanese soldiers reportedly preferred Korean women next to the Japanese and Okinawans" (p. 10), and these women were not only forced to serve but "were given Japanese names or were known by numbers" (Oh, __, p. 10).
Oh goes on to look at what their lives were like and to consider how their story was at first covered up and then revealed to history. This revelation forms the heart of the article. Oh concludes with a powerful argument for continued study, to learn from this tragedy and to prevent its recurrence.
Yuki Tanaka's ( ) "Rape and War: The Japanese Experience" argues for "analyzing how all wars
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