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During the Asia-Pacific War, the Japanese military forced hundreds of thousands of women across Asia into "comfort stations" where they were repeatedly raped and tortured. Japanese imperial forces claimed they recruited women to join these stations in order to prevent the mass rape of local women and the spread of venereal disease among soldiers. In reality, these women were kidnapped and coerced into sexual slavery. Comfort stations institutionalized rape, and these "comfort women" were subjected to atrocities that have only recently become the subject of international debate.__Chinese Comfort Women: Testimonies from Japan's Imperial Sex Slaves__ features the personal narratives of twelve women forced into sexual slavery when the Japanese military occupied their hometowns. Beginning with their prewar lives and continuing through their enslavement to their postwar struggles for justice, these interviews reveal that the prolonged suffering of the comfort station survivors was not contained to wartime atrocities but was rather a lifelong condition resulting from various social, political, and cultural factors. In addition, their stories bring to light several previously hidden aspect

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Author

Peipei Qiu, with Su Zhiliang and Chen Lifei

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780774825443

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

True Crime, Memoir, History

Rating

4.23 / 5 (39 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14