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Comfort Women

Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War II

By: Yoshiaki Yoshimi

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Comfort Women

Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War II

By: Yoshiaki Yoshimi

Available for the first time in English, this is the definitive account of the practice of sexual slavery the Japanese military perpetrated during World War II by the researcher principally responsible for exposing the Japanese government's responsibility for these atrocities. The large scale imprisonment and rape of thousands of women, who were euphemistically called "comfort women" by the Japanese military, first seized public attention in 1991 when three Korean women filed suit in a Toyko District Court stating that they had been forced into sexual servitude and demanding compensation. Since then the comfort stations and their significance have been the subject of ongoing debate and intense activism in Japan, much if it inspired by Yoshimi's investigations. How large a role did the military, and by extension the government, play in setting up and administering these camps? What type of compensation, if any, are the victimized women due? These issues figure prominently in the current Japanese focus on public memory and arguments about the teaching and writing of history and are central to efforts to transform Japanese ways of remembering the war. Yoshimi Yoshiaki provides a wealth of documentation and testimony to prove the existence of some 2,000 centers where as many as 200,000 Korean, Filipina, Taiwanese, Indonesian, Burmese, Dutch, Australian, and some Japanese women were restrained for months and forced to engage in sexual activity with Japanese military personnel. Many of the women were teenagers, some as young as fourteen. To date, the Japanese government has neither admitted responsibility for creating the comfort station system nor given compensation directly to former comfort women. This English edition updates the Japanese edition originally published in 1995 and includes introductions by both the author and the translator placing the story in context for American readers.

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Columbia University Press

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0231120338

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9780231120333

Grassroots Fascism

The War Experience of the Japanese People

By: Yoshimi Yoshiaki

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Grassroots Fascism

The War Experience of the Japanese People

By: Yoshimi Yoshiaki

Grassroots Fascism profiles the Asia Pacific War (1937–1945)—the most important though least understood experience of Japan's modern history—through the lens of ordinary Japanese life. Moving deftly from the struggles of the home front to the occupied territories to the ravages of the front line, the book offers rare insights into popular experiences from the war's troubled beginnings through Japan's disastrous defeat in 1945 and the new beginning it heralded. Yoshimi Yoshiaki mobilizes diaries, letters, memoirs, and government documents to portray the ambivalent position of ordinary Japanese as both wartime victims and active participants. He also provides penetrating accounts of the war experiences of Japan's minorities and imperial subjects, including Koreans and Taiwanese. His book challenges the idea that the Japanese people operated as a mere conduit for the military during the war, passively accepting an imperial ideology imposed upon them by the political elite. Viewed from the bottom up, wartime Japan unfolds as a complex modern mass society, with a corresponding variety of popular roles and agendas. In chronicling the diversity of wartime Japanese social experience, Yoshimi's account elevates our understanding of "Japanese Fascism." In its relation of World War II to the evolution—and destruction—of empire, it makes a fresh contribution to the global history of the war. Ethan Mark's translation supplements the Japanese original with explanatory notes and an in-depth introduction that situates the work within Japanese studies and global history.

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Columbia University Press

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0231538596

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Grassroots Fascism

The War Experience of the Japanese People

By: Yoshimi Yoshiaki

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The War Experience of the Japanese People

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Comfort Women

Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War II

By: Yoshiaki Yoshimi

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Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War II

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Random Seas and Design of Maritime Structures

By: Yoshimi Goda

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Random Seas and Design of Maritime Structures

By: Yoshimi Goda

Random waves are the most important constituent of the sea environment, as they make the design of maritime structures quite different from that of structures on land. In this book, the concept of random waves for the design of breakwaters, seawalls, and harbor structures is fully explored for easy comprehension by practicing engineers. Theoretical aspects are also discussed in detail for further studies by graduate students and researchers.

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World Scientific

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9814282391

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9789814282390

Asian and Pacific Coasts 2003

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference : Makuhari, Japan, 29 February-4 March 2004

By: Yoshimi G?da

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Asian and Pacific Coasts 2003

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference : Makuhari, Japan, 29 February-4 March 2004

By: Yoshimi G?da

This book presents the experience of coastal and port engineering development, as well as coastal environmental problems, in Asian and Pacific countries. It also provides information and promotes technological progress and activities, international technical transfer and cooperation, and opportunities for engineers and researchers to maintain and improve scientific and technical competence. The subject areas are not limited to the classical topics of coastal engineering but are extended to related fields, including environments, marine ecology, coastal oceanography, fishery, etc.

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1583

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World Scientific

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9812385584

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9789812385581

The Economics of Tax and Social Security in Japan

By: Yoshimi Adachi

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The Economics of Tax and Social Security in Japan

By: Yoshimi Adachi

This book integrates the fundamentals of quantitative significance, using existing estimates of the elasticities of demand for tax, health insurance, and medical services in a static microsimulation model. It serves as a guide to the financial and social basics of health insurance and provides the reader with the intellectual groundwork indispensable for understanding the incorrect assumptions about the elasticities of demand and pattern of tax and health insurance. Most countries feel constant pressure because expenditure is increasing and resources are scarce. The topics addressed in this book including several frameworks leading to over-insurance, excess demand for medical care, and rapid expenditure growth in the medical care sector. Illustrated by carefully chosen examples and supported by extensive data analyses, this book is highly recommended to readers who seek an in-depth and up-to-date integrated overview of the ever-expanding theoretical and quantitative fields of containing costs, increasing funding for health services, or both.

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264

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Springer

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9811071764

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9789811071768

Book's by Yoshimi Yoshiaki

Comfort Women

Comfort Women

Grassroots Fascism

Grassroots Fascism

Grassroots Fascism

Grassroots Fascism

Comfort Women

Comfort Women

Random Seas and Design of Maritime Structures

Random Seas and Design of Maritime Structures

Asian and Pacific Coasts 2003

Asian and Pacific Coasts 2003

The Economics of Tax and Social Security in Japan

The Economics of Tax and Social Security in Japan

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