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

by George Hicks

Overview

"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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393316940
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	10/17/1997
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

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

Editorial Reviews

George Hicks has delivered a work that is worth taking seriously, not only for its data regarding events decades behind us, but also as part of the campaign to uncover the truth about the Japanese army's actions.

Leonard Bushkoff - Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly

A study of the more than 100,000 mostly Korean women forced into sexual slavery at the hands of the Japanese military during WWII. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly