True Stories of the Korean Comfort Women (Cassell Global Issues Series)

By Korean Council for Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan

Book Overview

Between 100,000 and 200,000 women were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military between the early 1930s and 1945. Yet successive post-war Japanese governments have refused to acknowledge... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030433264X
• ISBN13: 9780304332649
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: UNKNO
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Sad but true accounts of Korean women in sexual slavery

This book is compiled of the true experiences of Korean women, some as young as 14, who were forced into prostitution by the Japanese army. These war crimes have never been accounted or formally apologized for, and though this happened to thousands of women from China, the Philippines and Korea their experiences have been sought to be forgotten due to shame, ignorance and prejudice. This moving, often harrowing book is a wonderful tribute to not forget the hardships of these women and what they have been through. Some of them had their lives ruined, and some married and attempted to live normally- but none of them ever forgot the brutally experienced by a heartless and cruel military power. War brings much hardship and tragedy, and this is a powerful way to remember the past and not repeat history in the future.

More books like this should be written.

I know thi ws book is repetitious, but I appreciate how the women are willing to stand up and let the whole world know about the nasty thing the Japanese did and are trying to cover up. If you also read " the Rape of Nanking", you'll get a fuller picture, this book cover only a small part. I recommend you read this. A japanese soldier publish a book about the rape of Nanking and was sentenced as defamation of the Japs Imperial army. They are trying to cover up and picture the Chinese as the history forger. Now, read this, at least you got another piece of history from another victim. let us all remember the facts when 21st century come and don't let this happen again.