Chinese Comfort Women: Testimonies from Imperial Japan's Sex Slaves

by Peipei Qiu

Book Overview

During the Asia-Pacific War, the Japanese military forced hundreds of thousands of women across Asia into "comfort stations" where they were repeatedly raped and tortured. Japanese imperial forces claimed they recruited women to join these stations in order to prevent the mass rape of local women and the spread of venereal disease among soldiers. In reality, these women were kidnapped and coerced into sexual slavery. Comfort stations institutionalized...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199373892
• ISBN13: 9780199373895
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"