comfort women: References & Edit History
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George Hicks, The Comfort Women: Japan’s Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War (1995), one of the first English-language surveys of the subject; Yoshiaki Yoshimi, Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War II (2000; originally published in Japanese, 1995), a detailed report by the Japanese historian who discovered official documents on the program; Toshiyuki Tanaka, Japan’s Comfort Women (2000); Chunghee Sarah Soh, The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan (2008).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Invalidated site: Association for Asian Studies - Teaching about the Comfort Women during World War II and the Use of Personal Stories of the Victims. | Sep 25, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: HistoryNet - Korean Comfort Women: Japans World War II Sex Slaves. | Jul 18, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan - Japan's Efforts on the Issue of Comfort Women. | Jun 03, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - Witness History - The 'comfort women' of World War Two. | Nov 07, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Scholarship Commons - Diplomacy and Its Others: The Case of Comfort Women (PDF). | Aug 01, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus - The Comfort Women and State Prostitution. | May 24, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of California - eScholarship - Comfort Women of World War II (PDF). | Feb 24, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - Wartime treatment of the comfort women and todays prostitution-or-slavery debate (PDF). | Jan 18, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi - Korean Comfort Women. | Mar 29, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma: Psychiatric Evaluation of Offspring of Former Comfort Women, Survivors of the Japanese Military Sexual Slavery during World ... | Oct 13, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States Institute of Peace - A Guide to Understanding the History of the �Comfort Women� Issue. | Feb 15, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Association for Asian Studies - Teaching about the Comfort Women during World War II and the Use of Personal Stories of the Victims. | Dec 23, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Reconstructing the History of the "Comfort Women" System: The Fruits of 28 years of Investigation into the "Comfort Women" Issue in China. | Sep 08, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Berkeley Law Scholarship Repository - Sexual Slavery and the Comfort Women of World War II. | Aug 23, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: ThoughtCo. - Women and World War II: Comfort Women. | Jun 06, 2018 | ||
| Clarified the origin of the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan. | Apr 02, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Digital Museum - Japanese Military and Comfort Women. | Nov 23, 2016 | ||
| The spelling of "juguns ianfu" changed to jūgun ianfu." |
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| Article revised and updated. | Jan 30, 2015 | ||
| Titles added to the bibliography. | Nov 18, 2014 | ||
| Article expanded and thoroughly revised. | Nov 18, 2014 | ||
| Bibliography added. | Jan 02, 2014 | ||
| New article added. | Jan 02, 2014 |
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