Japan's Comfort Women: The Military and Involuntary Prostitution During War and Occupation Book

	List of figure and tables
	List of plates
	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Author's note
	Introduction	1
1	The origins of the comfort women system	8
	The initial establishment of comfort stations	8
	A rapid increase in comfort stations after the "Rape of Nanjing"	12
	The organizational structure of the comfort women system	19
	Why comfort women?	28
2	Procurement of comfort women and their lives as sexual slaves	33
	The colonization of Korea and the growth of the prostitution industry	33
	Procurement of Korean and Taiwanese women	37
	Procurement of women in China and the Philippines	44
	Life as a comfort woman	50
3	Comfort women in the Dutch East Indies	61
	Japan's invasion of the Dutch East Indies and military violence against women	61
	Exploitation of existing prostitutes by the Japanese troops	64
	Procurement of Dutch women	67
	Enforced prostitution at comfort stations in Semarang	72
	The Dutch military authorities' indifference towards Indonesian comfort women	77
4	Why did the US forces ignore the comfort women issue?	84
	US military indifference towards comfort women	84
	US military policies on the prevention of venereal disease in World War II	87
	The Brumfield Report and military-controlled prostitution	92
	Military prostitution in the Caribbean, Australia and elsewhere	99
	Criticism, cover-up and a change in the War Department's attitude	106
5	Sexual violence committed by the Allied occupation forces against Japanese women: 1945-1946	110
	Sexual violence prior to the Allied occupation of Japan	110
	Fear and confusion before the landing of the Allied occupation forces	112
	Official reports on sexual violence committed by the occupation forces against Japanese women	116
	Testimonies of victims of sexual violence committed by the occupation troops	127
6	Japanese comfort women for the Allied occupation forces	133
	The Japanese government creates a comfort women system for the occupation forces	133
	The Recreation and Amusement Association	141
	Occupation policies and the spread of prostitution	150
	VD problems and the failure of GHQ's VD prevention policies	155
	Epilogue	167
	From karayuki-san to comfort woman	167
	Sexual slavery, social death, and military violence	173
	Imperialism, the patriarchal state, and the control of sexuality	180
	Notes	183
	Index	206