num_pages: 304
description: "The most extensive record available in English of the ugly story."―Elisabeth Rubinfein, New York Newsday Over 100,000 women across Asia were victims of enforced prostitution by the Japanese Imperial Forces during World War II. Until as recently as 1993 the Japanese government continued to deny this shameful aspect of its wartime history. George Hicks's book is the only history in English regarding this terrible enslavement of women.
language: English
title: The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War
titlecomplete: The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War
genres: Japanese History, Japan, History, World War II, Japanese Literature, War, Asia, Womens, Nonfiction, Feminism
ratings_count: 283
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company