Military Brothels, Brutality, and the Redress Movement
Paperback
Publication Date: 30/03/2021
Arguably the most brutal crime committed by the Japanese military during the Asia-Pacific war was the forced mobilization of 50,000 to 200,000 Asian women to military brothels to sexually serve Japanese soldiers. The majority of these women died of physical abuse, malnutrition, sexually transmitted diseases, injuries from bombings or other military attacks, or other tragic circumstances. Korean survivors kept silent about their brutal experiences in military brothels for about fifty years. In the late 1980s, the women's movement in South Korea helped to start the redress movement for the victims. It helped many survivors come forward to tell what happened to them. The redress movement with their testimonies gained strong support from the U.N., the U.S., and other Western countries. Korean "Comfort Women" synthesizes the previous major findings about Japanese military sexual slavery and legal recommendations for an English-language audience, and provides additional findings about Korean comfort women's life-threatening homecoming trips and their residual marriage, family, economic, and healthcare problems. It also examines the transnational redress movement, demonstrating that the Japanese government has tried to conceal the crime of sexual slavery and to resolve the "comfort women" issue with money alone.
- ISBN:
- 9781978814967
- 9781978814967
- Category:
- Genocide & ethnic cleansing
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 30-03-2021
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Rutgers University Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Dimensions (mm):
- 233.68x154.94x25.4mm
- Weight:
- 0kg
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