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Japan's Comfort Women (Asia's Transformations)

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Yuki Tanaka's work on the topic of comfort women was a good eye opener.

His writing, based on fairly extensive research, and not on his or someone else's opinion will add to the depth of understanding for any student of Japan.

This book does not fall into the category of "Japan Bashing", instead helps the reader to understand that first, the use of comfort women was incredibly more prevelant than one might have otherwise thought, second, the effects of this practice are still very relevant today as Prime Minister Abe continues to deny the practice ever occurred, while many other parts of Asia still feel the pain caused by the practice.

Modern Japan still seems comfortable portraying women in a manner that would not be acceptable in the west. Any student of Japan, should be interested in understanding the "why" of such phenomenon, and this book may help toward that end.

Highly recommend this book for people who have a strong interest in Japan, Asia, psychology, war or peace for that matter.

It is not a light read, it is a thought provoking one.

Interesting book. The term "The Evils that Men Do" more than fits this.

It give you insight on what War is and how it goes way beyond the battlefields.

This book was already published in December last year, under the new title "Comfort Women: Sexual slavery and prostitution during World War II and the US Occupation."
The book is available both in hardcover and paperback.

I needed to do a book review a few years back. I used this for my cultural feminism course. Interesting read and it keeps your attention.

This is one of the few books that deal with what happened to the "comfort women" after Japan's defeat in WWII. Namely that they switched to serving American GIs - for reduced pay.
It sort of hits you in the gut after being indignant about the comfort women issue for a while and then discover that your grandfather probablly had a good time with them too.
This book, however, does not go into the extent to which the women were abused in American hands when the Japanese army was no longer there to protect them. It was an "out of the fryingpan and into the fire" story. It is a tragic end to a tragic story that we all should know about.