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| List of figure and tables | |
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| List of plates | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Author's note | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The origins of the comfort women system | |
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| The initial establishment of comfort stations | |
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| A rapid increase in comfort stations after the "Rape of Nanjing" | |
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| The organizational structure of the comfort women system | |
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| Why comfort women? | |
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| Procurement of comfort women and their lives as sexual slaves | |
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| The colonization of Korea and the growth of the prostitution industry | |
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| Procurement of Korean and Taiwanese women | |
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| Procurement of women in China and the Philippines | |
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| Life as a comfort woman | |
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| Comfort women in the Dutch East Indies | |
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| Japan's invasion of the Dutch East Indies and military violence against women | |
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| Exploitation of existing prostitutes by the Japanese troops | |
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| Procurement of Dutch women | |
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| Enforced prostitution at comfort stations in Semarang | |
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| The Dutch military authorities' indifference towards Indonesian comfort women | |
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| Why did the US forces ignore the comfort women issue? | |
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| US military indifference towards comfort women | |
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| US military policies on the prevention of venereal disease in World War II | |
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| The Brumfield Report and military-controlled prostitution | |
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| Military prostitution in the Caribbean, Australia and elsewhere | |
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| Criticism, cover-up and a change in the War Department's attitude | |
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| Sexual violence committed by the Allied occupation forces against Japanese women: 1945-1946 | |
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| Sexual violence prior to the Allied occupation of Japan | |
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| Fear and confusion before the landing of the Allied occupation forces | |
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| Official reports on sexual violence committed by the occupation forces against Japanese women | |
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| Testimonies of victims of sexual violence committed by the occupation troops | |
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| Japanese comfort women for the Allied occupation forces | |
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| The Japanese government creates a comfort women system for the occupation forces | |
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| The Recreation and Amusement Association | |
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| Occupation policies and the spread of prostitution | |
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| VD problems and the failure of GHQ's VD prevention policies | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| From karayuki-san to comfort woman | |
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| Sexual slavery, social death, and military violence | |
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| Imperialism, the patriarchal state, and the control of sexuality | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |