HIST 1708 Lecture 32: HIST1708 Lecture32
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Expnasion of the war in china from undeclared war to full-scale/ declared war. Japanese army invades nanjing(new nationalist capital) in dec. 1937. Widespread killing of combatants and non-combatants, military and civilian; rape and abuse of women. Japanese military and government established o cially-run military brothels to provide sex for japanese military in china and other parts of asian empire. The euphemism of "comfort" = forced prostitution = sexual slavery. 200,000 women forced to provided sexual services to japanese military men. Most women recruited under false pretenses by local (korena or chinese) or. Con ned to "comfort stations" in various parts of empire, under supervision/ control of japanese military. Japanese government denied the existence of military comfort women-comfort stations until the early 1990s. Between 1990-2015 japanese gov"t refused to issue o cial apology or to estavlish fund for reparations with public monies.
