The Comfort Women Hoax: A Fake Memoir, North Korean Spies, and Hit Squads in the Academic Swamp - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Encounter BooksISBN-13:9781641773454ISBN-10:1641773456UPC:9781641773454Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Women, AsiaBook Topic:Japan, KoreaSize:8.90 x 6.20 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.6006Product ID:SC0DWTATKX
The Comfort Women Hoax: A Fake Memoir, North Korean Spies, and Hit Squads in the Academic Swamp
During World War II, the Japanese military extended Japan's civilian licensing regime for domestic brothels to those next to its overseas bases. It did so for a simple reason: to impose the strenuous health standards necessary to control the venereal disease that had debilitated its troops in earlier wars. In turn, these brothels (dubbed "comfort stations") recruited prostitutes through...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Encounter BooksISBN-13:9781641773454ISBN-10:1641773456UPC:9781641773454Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Women, AsiaBook Topic:Japan, KoreaSize:8.90 x 6.20 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.6006Product ID:SC0DWTATKX
JASON M. MORGAN is associate professor at Reitaku University in Kashiwa, Japan. He is the translator of esteemed Japanese historian Hata Ikuhiko's scholarly history of the comfort women, and is also the author of an intellectual biography of Japanese legal philosopher Suehiro Izutaro. Morgan is an editorial writer for the Sankei Shimbun newspaper in Tokyo, a managing editor at the news and...
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