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The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory (Paperback)
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The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory (Paperback)
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A balanced, sensitive study of the history of comfort women in
Singapore during World War II. "Comfort women" or ianfu is the
euphemism used by the Japanese military for the women they
compelled to do sex work in the Second World War, and has become
the term generally used in English to discuss the subject. The role
of comfort women in the Japanese empire during World War II remains
an important and emotional topic around the world. Most scholarship
concentrates on Korean comfort women, with less on their
counterparts in Japan, China, and Taiwan, and even less on
Southeast Asia. That gap persists despite widespread knowledge of
the elaborate series of comfort stations, or comfort houses, that
were organized by the Japanese administration across Singapore
during the Occupation from 1942 to 1945. So why, the author asks,
did no former comfort women from Singapore come forward and tell
their stories when others across Asia began to do publicly in the
1990s? To understand this silence, this book offers a detailed
examination of the sex industry serving the Japanese military
during the wartime occupation of Singapore: the comfort stations,
managers, procuresses, girls, and women who either volunteered or
were forced into service and in many cases sexual slavery. Kevin
Blackburn then turns from history to the public presence of the
comfort women in Singapore's memory, including newspapers, novels,
plays, television, and touristic heritage sites, showing how
comfort women became known in Singapore during the 1990s and 2000s.
Bringing great care, balance, and sensitivity to a difficult
subject, Blackburn helps to fill an important gap in our
understanding of this period.
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