Denying the Comfort Women: The Japanese State's Assault on Historical Truth
- Editor
- Rumiko Nishino, Puja Kim, Akane Onozawa, and Violence against Women in War Research Action Center
- Translator
- Robert Ricketts
- Series
- Asia's Transformations, vol. 52
- Content
- xix + 267 pp., ill., bibl., index
- Publication date
- 2018
- Publisher
- New York: Routledge/Taylor and Francis
- Original-Language Title
- "Ianfu" basshingu o koete
- Translation
- Translated from Japanese
- Description
- Uses archival documents, court testimonies, and witness accounts to examine the system of forced prostitution run by the Japanese military, approaches to acknowledging and supporting survivors, and efforts to hide the program's history.
- Main subject
- Politics
- ISBN
- 9781138048713 (cloth); 9780367349660 (pap.); 9781351690638 (ebook)
- Citation
- Nishino, Rumiko, Puja Kim, Akane Onozawa, and Violence against Women in War Research Action Center, eds. Denying the Comfort Women: The Japanese State's Assault on Historical Truth. Translated by Robert Ricketts. Asia's Transformations, vol. 52. New York: Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2018. Sylvia. Accessed May 9, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL988.
- Updated
- 12-27-2023