Australia and the Comfort Women: Enforced Prostitution in the New Guinea Campaign, 1942-1945

by Caroline Norma

In the aftermath of WWII Australia undertook a number of war crime trials, and yet despite detailed records about Japanese military sexual slavery during the New Guinea Campaign, 'enforced prostitution' was not among the crimes prosecuted. This book asks why, when enforced prostitution was listed as a war crime, and both Australian and civilian authorities had reported the Japanese 'comfort women' scheme of military sexual slavery, its perpetrators...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350464333
• ISBN13: 9781350464339
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"