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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11885100.
- catalog contributor b11885101.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""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."".
- catalog description ""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."".
- catalog description ""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."".
- catalog description ""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."".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog extent "x, 154 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Comfort women speak.".
- catalog identifier "0841914133 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Comfort women speak.".
- catalog isPartOf "Science and human rights series ; 1".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "Includes translation of Korean testimonies into English.".
- catalog language "eng kor".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Holmes & Meier,".
- catalog relation "Comfort women speak.".
- catalog spatial "Asia".
- catalog spatial "Asia.".
- catalog spatial "Korea.".
- catalog subject "940.54/05/0922519 21".
- catalog subject "Comfort women Asia.".
- catalog subject "Comfort women Korea.".
- catalog subject "D810.C698 C66 2000".
- catalog subject "Service, Compulsory non-military Asia.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Asia Atrocities.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Atrocities Asia.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, Korean.".
- catalog title "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.".
- catalog type "Personal narratives Korean. fast".
- catalog type "text".