Teaching about the Comfort Women during World War II and the Use of Personal Stories of the Victims - Association for Asian Studies

“Comfort women” refers to the system of sexual slavery created and controlled by the Imperial Japanese government between 1932 and 1945. It is the largest case of government-sponsored human trafficking and sexual slavery in modern history. Many scholars have argued that the term comfort women, a euphemism coined by the Japanese military, obscures the gravity […]

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Teaching about the Comfort Women during World War II and the Use of Personal Stories of the Victims - Association for Asian Studies

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Teaching about the Comfort Women during World War II and the Use of Personal Stories of the Victims - Association for Asian Studies

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