Comfort women : sexual slavery in the Japanese military during World War II by 880-01 Yoshimi Yoshiaki 1946-;O'Brien Suzanne G. 1969- & O'Brien Suzanne G. 1969-

Author:880-01 Yoshimi, Yoshiaki, 1946-;O'Brien, Suzanne G., 1969- & O'Brien, Suzanne G., 1969-
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Asian / Middle Eastern history: Second World War, European history: Second World War, Prostitution, Women's studies, Second World War, 1939-1945, History - General History, Sociology, Europe, Japan, Asia - Japan, Military - World War II, Women's Studies - History, History / Asia, Japon. Armée, World War (1939-1945), Comfort women, World War, 1939-1945, Japanners, Krijgsmacht, Prostitutie, Seksueel geweld, Tweede Wereldoorlog, Femmes de réconfort, Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945, Women, Guerre mondiale (1939-1945), Prostituées, Femmes victimes de violence, Koreanerin, Weltkrieg <1939-1945>, Kriegsverbrechen, Militär, Weltkrieg (1939-1945), Zwang
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press
Published: 2000-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

How Were the Women Rounded Up?

There is also the case of a noncommissioned officer from the 13 th Railway Regiment, who built a temporary special comfort station south of Yancheng in Henan Province in the summer of 1944. This noncommissioned officer was ordered to set up a comfort station because military discipline had degenerated, so he went to Yancheng where the front lines headquarters was located. There, he was given custody of twenty-five Chinese comfort women and their supervisors, a total of thirty people. He put them aboard two trucks, assigned them bodyguards so they wouldn’t flee, and brought them to the special comfort station.

The building housing the comfort station was an estate rented from the village headman. The noncommissioned officer divided the building into six separate establishments and the rooms inside into many small rooms, and then readied the comfort station for business. When the doctor came to perform medical examinations, however, he discovered that “to our surprise . . . every single one of [the good-looking women] was crippled.’’ 79 Since it was a request from the army, which essentially amounted to outright coercion, the head of the organization for maintaining order had sacrificed these women. The women were all around twenty years old. On the first day, soldiers thronged to the comfort station, and officers came by at night. On the second day, it was so busy that the women pleaded to be given some rest because their bodies couldn’t stand having to work from 10 in the morning until late into the night. 81 '

Impressment During “Subjugation” Operations

Another method of forcibly rounding up comfort women was direct gathering while soldiers were out on “subjugation” operations. Because there have been so few surveys asking fomier comfort women in China about their experiences, we don’t know very much about these cases. But at present, we do have the following testimonies. Wan Aihua was born in Inner Mongolia in 1929. Her family was very poor, and she was sold at age four in Yu District in Shanxi Province. From the age of eleven she participated in resistance movements against the Japanese. In 1943, when arrested by the Japanese army for the third time (she was imprisoned for periods of twenty to twenty-six days), she was gang-raped. 81 This was an instance of gang rape during a fixed prison term.

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