The Resource Comfort women speak : testimony by sex slaves of the Japanese military : includes new United Nations human rights report, edited by Sangmie Choi Schellstede ; featuring photographs by Soon Mi Yu
Comfort women speak : testimony by sex slaves of the Japanese military : includes new United Nations human rights report, edited by Sangmie Choi Schellstede ; featuring photographs by Soon Mi Yu
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- Summary
- "During World War II, an estimated 200,000 girls and young women were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese imperial military, which was authorized by the highest levels of Japan's wartime government. This system resulted in the largest, most methodical and most deadly mass rape of women in recorded history. Japan's Kem pei tai political police and their collaborators tricked or abducted females as young as eleven years old and imprisoned them in military rape camps known as "comfort stations," situated throughout Asia. These "comfort women" were forced to service as many as fifty Japanese soldiers a day. They were often beaten, starved, and made to endure abortions or injections with sterilizing drugs. Only a few of the women survived, and those that did suffered permanent physical and emotional damage. Little was known about the true scope of this crime against humanity until 1991, when after almost fifty years of silence, seventy-four-old Kim Hak-soon bravely told the world of her experiences as a comfort woman. Her testimony gave others the strength to tell their stories. The Washington Coalition for Comfort Women Issues (WCCW) carefully transcribed and translated the stories of nineteen survivors, which are now presented in this book. These courageous women have shared their experiences to document a crime that must never be repeated. They seek a formal apology and reparation from Japan's government for the horrors it imposed on them. Thus far, that government has responded with gestures that many survivors regard as a new and more subtle form of the same degradation they have faced throughout their lives. This is not simply a history book. Comfort Women Speak documents the lives of nineteen courageous women who continue to fight to bring to account one of the most powerful governments in the world."--BOOK JACKET
- Language
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- eng
- kor
- eng
- Label
- Comfort women speak : testimony by sex slaves of the Japanese military : includes new United Nations human rights report
- Title
- Comfort women speak
- Title remainder
- testimony by sex slaves of the Japanese military : includes new United Nations human rights report
- Statement of responsibility
- edited by Sangmie Choi Schellstede ; featuring photographs by Soon Mi Yu
- Language
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- eng
- kor
- eng
- Summary
- "During World War II, an estimated 200,000 girls and young women were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese imperial military, which was authorized by the highest levels of Japan's wartime government. This system resulted in the largest, most methodical and most deadly mass rape of women in recorded history. Japan's Kem pei tai political police and their collaborators tricked or abducted females as young as eleven years old and imprisoned them in military rape camps known as "comfort stations," situated throughout Asia. These "comfort women" were forced to service as many as fifty Japanese soldiers a day. They were often beaten, starved, and made to endure abortions or injections with sterilizing drugs. Only a few of the women survived, and those that did suffered permanent physical and emotional damage. Little was known about the true scope of this crime against humanity until 1991, when after almost fifty years of silence, seventy-four-old Kim Hak-soon bravely told the world of her experiences as a comfort woman. Her testimony gave others the strength to tell their stories. The Washington Coalition for Comfort Women Issues (WCCW) carefully transcribed and translated the stories of nineteen survivors, which are now presented in this book. These courageous women have shared their experiences to document a crime that must never be repeated. They seek a formal apology and reparation from Japan's government for the horrors it imposed on them. Thus far, that government has responded with gestures that many survivors regard as a new and more subtle form of the same degradation they have faced throughout their lives. This is not simply a history book. Comfort Women Speak documents the lives of nineteen courageous women who continue to fight to bring to account one of the most powerful governments in the world."--BOOK JACKET
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 940.54/05/0922519
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- portraits
- Index
- no index present
- Language note
- Includes translation of Korean testimonies into English
- LC call number
- D810.C698
- LC item number
- C66 2000
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Schellstede, Sangmie Choi
- Yu, Soon Mi
- Series statement
- Holmes & Meier science and human rights
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Comfort women
- Comfort women
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
- Service, Compulsory non-military
- World War, 1939-1945
- Label
- Comfort women speak : testimony by sex slaves of the Japanese military : includes new United Nations human rights report, edited by Sangmie Choi Schellstede ; featuring photographs by Soon Mi Yu
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 44777233
- Dimensions
- 22 x 27 cm
- Extent
- x, 154 pages
- Isbn
- 9780841914131
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 00061364
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- Label
- Comfort women speak : testimony by sex slaves of the Japanese military : includes new United Nations human rights report, edited by Sangmie Choi Schellstede ; featuring photographs by Soon Mi Yu
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 44777233
- Dimensions
- 22 x 27 cm
- Extent
- x, 154 pages
- Isbn
- 9780841914131
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 00061364
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
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