Full Description
Accountability and redress for Imperial Japan's wartime "comfort women" have provoked international debate in the past two decades. While personal narratives of "comfort station" survivors have been published in English, there has been a dearth of information about the women forced into service in these stations in Mainland China - a major theatre of the Asia-Pacific War. Through personal narratives from twelve Chinese "comfort station" survivors, this book reveals the unfathomable atrocities committed during the war and correlates the proliferation of "comfort stations" with the progression of Japan's military offensive. Drawing on investigative reports, local histories, and witness testimony, Chinese Comfort Women puts a human face on China's war experience and on the injustices suffered by hundreds of thousands of Chinese women.
Contents
Introduction
Part 1: The War Remembered
1 Japan's Aggressive War and the Military "Comfort Women" System
2 The Mass Abduction of Chinese Women
3 Different Types of Military "Comfort Stations" in China
4 Crimes Fostered by the "Comfort Women" System
Part 2: The Survivors' Voices
5 Eastern Coastal Region
6 Warzones in Central and Northern China
7 Southern China Frontlines
Part 3: The Postwar Struggles
8 Wounds That Do Not Heal
9 The Redress Movement
10 Litigation on the Part of Chinese Survivors
11 International Support
Epilogue; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
