The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War

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W. W. Norton, Oct 17, 1997 - History - 304 pages

"The most extensive record available in English of the ugly story."—Elisabeth Rubinfein, New York Newsday

Over 100,000 women across Asia were victims of enforced prostitution by the Japanese Imperial Forces during World War II. Until as recently as 1993 the Japanese government continued to deny this shameful aspect of its wartime history. George Hicks's book is the only history in English regarding this terrible enslavement of women.

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About the author (1997)

George Hicks is an anthropologist. Much of his work focuses on the experiences of the Japanese during World War II.

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