Japan’s Comfort Women：Sexual Slaver & Prostitution during World War II & the US Occupation(Asia’s Transformations)
List of figure and tables
List of plates
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Author’s note
Introduction
1. The origins of the comfort women system
The initial establishment of comfort stations
A rapid increase in comfort stations after the “Rape of Nanjing”
The organizational structure of the comfort women system
Why comfort women?
2. Procurement of comfort women and their lives as sexual slaves
The colonization of Korea and the growth of the prostitution industry
Procurement of Korean and Taiwanese women
Procurement of women in China and the Philippines
Life as a comfort woman
3. Comfort women in the Dutch East Indies
Japan’s invasion of the Dutch East Indies and military violence against women
Exploitation of existing prostitutes by the Japanese troops
Procurement of Dutch women
Enforced prostitution at comfort stations in Semarang
The Dutch military authorities’ indifference towards Indonesian comfort women
4. Why did the US forces ignore the comfort women issue?
US military indifference towards comfort women
US military policies on the prevention of venereal disease in World War II
The Brumfield Report and military－controlled prostitution
Military prostitution in the Caribbean, Australia and elsewhere
Criticism, cover－up and a change in the War Department’s attitude
5. Sexual violence committed by the Allied occupation forces against Japanese women：1945－1946
Sexual violence prior to the Allied occupation of Japan
Fear and confusion before the landing of the Allied occupation forces
Official reports on sexual violence committed by the occupation forces against Japanese women
Testimonies of victims of sexual violence committed by the occupation troops
6. Japanese comfort women for the Allied occupation forces
The Japanese government creates a comfort women system for the occupation forces
The Recreation and Amusement Association
Occupation policies and the spread of prostitution
VD problems and the failure of GHQ’s VD prevention policies
Epilogue
From karayuki－san to comfort woman
Sexual slavery, social death, and military violence
Imperialism, the patriarchal state, and the control of sexuality
Notes
Index
List of plates
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Author’s note
Introduction
1. The origins of the comfort women system
The initial establishment of comfort stations
A rapid increase in comfort stations after the “Rape of Nanjing”
The organizational structure of the comfort women system
Why comfort women?
2. Procurement of comfort women and their lives as sexual slaves
The colonization of Korea and the growth of the prostitution industry
Procurement of Korean and Taiwanese women
Procurement of women in China and the Philippines
Life as a comfort woman
3. Comfort women in the Dutch East Indies
Japan’s invasion of the Dutch East Indies and military violence against women
Exploitation of existing prostitutes by the Japanese troops
Procurement of Dutch women
Enforced prostitution at comfort stations in Semarang
The Dutch military authorities’ indifference towards Indonesian comfort women
4. Why did the US forces ignore the comfort women issue?
US military indifference towards comfort women
US military policies on the prevention of venereal disease in World War II
The Brumfield Report and military－controlled prostitution
Military prostitution in the Caribbean, Australia and elsewhere
Criticism, cover－up and a change in the War Department’s attitude
5. Sexual violence committed by the Allied occupation forces against Japanese women：1945－1946
Sexual violence prior to the Allied occupation of Japan
Fear and confusion before the landing of the Allied occupation forces
Official reports on sexual violence committed by the occupation forces against Japanese women
Testimonies of victims of sexual violence committed by the occupation troops
6. Japanese comfort women for the Allied occupation forces
The Japanese government creates a comfort women system for the occupation forces
The Recreation and Amusement Association
Occupation policies and the spread of prostitution
VD problems and the failure of GHQ’s VD prevention policies
Epilogue
From karayuki－san to comfort woman
Sexual slavery, social death, and military violence
Imperialism, the patriarchal state, and the control of sexuality
Notes
Index
