Read Japan's Comfort Women Online
Authors: Yuki Tanaka
Tags: #Social Science, #Ethnic Studies, #General
Yakuza 138, 140
88; indifference to comfort women 82, 83, 84 –7;
Yamamoto Yoshiji 137
Joint Army-Navy Vice Control Board 91; marines
Yamazaki Iwao 119, 133, 150–1
123, 155, 156; military-controlled prostitution 91,
Yamazaki Masao, Maj. 13
92–8, 101, 106, 107, 108; National Archives 84 –5,
Yanagawa Heisuke, Lt-Gen. 20, 21
88; navy 155, 156, 168; Office of War Information
Yanaihara Tadao, Prof. 165
85; prostitutes sent abroad 101; sailors 168; 24th
Yangzhou 14, 15, 45
Corps 86–7; 29th Division 107; venereal disease
Yantzi River 13, 16
prevention 87–92; War Department 88, 89, 91, 98,
Yingkou 171
99, 100, 101, 102, 106, 107, 108, 109, 159–61
Yokohama 113, 116, 118, 122, 137, 152, 165; Ashina
Bridge 121; City Police 155; earthquake (1923) 35;
van Bakerghem, Mrs 62
US troops arrive 143
van der Ploeg, Ellen 75–6
Yokosuka 113, 114, 116, 119, 121, 137, 155; US
vandalism, Allied 124
troops arrive 143, 147
‘Venereal Disease Control Programs in the Caribbean
Yomiuri HDchi
114, 115, 124, 125, 146
Area’ 102
Yoneyama Sabur
d
139–40
venereal disease: Allies 88, 89, 90, 92–8, 99, 100,
Yongdo 40
101, 102, 140, 152, 155–66, 175, 180; American
YDpan
165
policies on prevention 87–92; brothel owners 18;
Yosano Hikaru, Dr 156
brothels and prevention 9, 10, 24, 27, 30, 32, 98,
Yoshimoto Teiichi, Lt-Gen. 21
108, 109, 173; Chinese comfort stations 17;
Yoshiura 136
comfort women 18, 30, 44, 53, 57, 74, 77, 101,
Young, Iris 181
153, 156, 172; Dutch army 82; Italian 97; Japanese
Young Women’s Corps 12
11, 22, 27, 30, 67, 72, 171, 172, 180; medical
Yun Chung Ok, Prof. xv
examinations 9, 11, 51; prophylactic chemicals 30,
Yun Kumi 178, 181
78, 88–9, 90, 91, 94, 95, 101, 108, 152, 156;
prophylactic stations 90, 91, 92, 93, 96, 98, 100,
Zamami Island 112
101, 102, 151, 153, 157; uncontrollable 166;
see also
Zhenjiang 15
condoms
Zushi 113
Document Outline
Table of Contents
The origins of the comfort women system
Procurement of comfort women and their lives as sexual slaves
Comfort women in the Dutch East Indies
Why did the US forces ignore the comfort women issue?
Sexual violence committed by the Allied occupation forces against Japanese women: 1945 1946