Japan's Sex Slaves

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This paper examines how Japan was notorious during the Second World War for actively encouraging the use of "comfort women"and how Koreans and others were pressed into sexual slavery by the Japanese Army. It looks at how, since the normalization of trade and diplomatic relations between Japan and other countries, many have asked why Japan has never officially apologized for these actions. It shows how Japan's failure to acknowledge its role in the agony of these women and other victims of Japanese imperial aggression lends to a generally nationalist view of Japan's role in the war, which compounds existing racist and chauvinistic attitudes that continue to characterize Japanese culture today.

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"It is estimated that there were over 200 thousand comfort women employed by the Japanese Military during World War 2. (Economist, 13 August, 1998) However, the history of Japan's experience with comfort women isn't complete, as the government continues to insist that sexual services were provided by private industry despite thousands of accounts to the contrary. According to Lisa Go of ASA-News, Japan's use of comfort women was an attempt to curtail the mass-rape of women in occupied territories, particularly China. As Japan dramatically increased its 700,000-strong military presence in China in 1941, the rape of women in newly conquered territories served to cauterize enemy combatants against the Japanese."

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