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Book Review
Asia
| Yuki Tanaka. Japan's Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution during World War II and the U.S. Occupation. (Asia's Transformations.) New York: Routledge. 2002. Pp. xix, 212. $23.95.
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| There is now a substantial body of historical and contemporary scholarly work that has made Japan's comfort women the subject of intellectual inquiry. This material includes testimonies and memoirs by the women themselves, investigations into U.S. and Japanese responses (or nonresponses) to an issue that will not disappear from war narratives, and the feminist writing and agitation that was among the first voices of protest and insistence that legal action be taken. |
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