The Legacy Of Rape, By Nancy Toping Bazin's And Jane Harmovit Lauter's Philosophy Of Domination

The war crimes Japanese soldiers inflicted upon the people of Nanking are one of the most heinous examples of this idea of extermination, resulting in the loss of an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 lives. Thousands of women were raped, forced to take pictures with their assailants in pornographic poses, shamed and seen as being dirty, viewed as being subhuman. Soldiers were warned to eliminate the women they had raped, disposing of the evidence of what they had done. “‘Perhaps when we were raping her, we looked at her as a woman,’ Azuma [a soldier] wrote, “‘but when we killed her, we just thought of her as something like a pig’” (50). Rape was often rooted in superstition, the belief that the violation of virgins would provide strength and

War time produces many challenges for both men and women, girls and boys. The toll that is taken on families, friends, and the economy, for some will never be the same again. The fear and anguish that women must endure, whether she is on the battlefield or at home with the children reaches far beyond tomorrow. With the explosion of many women joining the military in the last two decades’ new issues have become known in recent years. Military sexual trauma being at the for front can no longer be ignored. The most significant challenge facing women and girls during times of war and after the conflict is being able to navigate a path so that they do not become victims of military sexual assault.

In World War II, Japanese Soldiers widely exploited Comfort Women. While this was a well-known issue, the use of men and women as sex slaves within Japan was ignored for nearly 45 years after World war II ended. It was not until 1992 that Japanese government paperwork acknowledges the use of comfort women by Japanese soldiers (Haas, 1992). Comfort women were often women, and few men, forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Army. They were often taken from their homes, however, at the beginning of the war willing prostitutes were offered monetary support for their willing involvement (Haas, 1992). While comfort women were taken care by Japanese officials throughout the war, nearly half of them did not survive the ordeal (Haas, 1992). Japanese

During World War two and the Pacific War, the Japanese army was bouncing back from the Raping of Nanking. The Imperial Army was shamed for the bluntness of its killing and raping of several hundreds of thousands of women. “The army that's rapes and pillages together stays together”-Alison Bernier. So it was not a surprise that the army was back at it with ‘comfort women’ during World War Two. This essay discusses the history of comfort stations, ‘comfort women’, and the controversy that surrounds the situation.

During the plight of Pacific War, Japan’s Imperial Army were victorious in the their expansion towards Southeast Asian nations, utilizing the notion of the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity sphere as a propagandistic tool that emphasized “Asia for Asians.” In proposing the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity sphere, Japan obtained the role as a leader of Asia. Possessing a superior role over Asia that emphasized the discrepancy between Japan and the other, which has been noted since the Sino- Japanese War in 1894-1895. Japanese soldiers exerted their dominance with atrocities such as murdering and raping civilians; therefore, Japanese soldiers were associated as victimizers. Even before World War II, Comfort women were victims that experienced sexual exploitation by Japanese men. Women were lured or captured into an “officially-organized system of rape by the Imperial Japanese Forces.” Korean women were among a group who were subjected into sex slaves; however, women from other Japanese occupied territories were also inclined to

Genocidal rape occurs through what is the perpetrator’s motive. The majority of male soldiers use marital rape for the satisfaction of feeling superior or in command. Male rapist’s use the feeling of superiority to make the opposing party feel vulnerable (Claudia Card pg. 17). Rape during war sends a message out to the male community for the purpose of humiliation. The objective behind Raping a wife, daughter, mother or sister is to prove that the men related to them we unable to protect them from the sexual violence. Not only is genocidal rape explained through power motives, but can be explained through biological and social motives. Rape during a war can be used as a tactic for relieving stress (Carly Brown). Mullins proclaims soldiers

During the second world war, the Japanese government began the recruitment and program of “comfort women.” This program consisted of thousands of Japanese women provided to American troops as sex-slaves as an idea due to combat the rape culture within the war zones. The women that were enlisted into this program were often coerced into participating and told that they were a sexual sacrifice to protect the purity of other Japanese women and their race. The conditions that these women lived and worked in were horrendous and they were often abused if they rebelled or tried to escape. There were thousands of women servicing the American troops living in legal brothels, however, these numbers are estimated to be larger due to the illegal brothels that existed. Consequently, the spread of sexually transmitted disease was rapid throughout these “comfort stations” causing many of the women to die of illness or other causes initiated by the poor working and living

Now, more than seventy years have passed since the end of the Asia Pacific War and the Japanese control of Korea, many people still recalled the painful memory of the history. This is the most important issue that the Imperial Japanese preferred to young women as sexual slavery and there was no such thing as the sense of human dignity. Young women were hard to overcome their miserable plight at that time because the depressed lives were forced to them. This paper is about the comfort women who become victimized by Japanese military sexual slavery, and they should be legally protected their human dignity in society.

Laura Sjoberg in her writings, 'In Gendering global conflict: towards a feminist theory of war', claims, “war cannot be understood without considering gender as a primary unit of analysis (Foster, 2014).” She further claims, “War is constituted by and constitutes gender and that gendering is a fundamental cause of war as well as a critical aspect (Sjoberg, 2013, p. 9).” In this extract, Sjoberg claims that gender and war are both patriarchy constructed, and the feminist approach to this studies should be acknowledging as a strength in which recognises the role of gender played in war. It is important to outline that the state, and war is a key culprit in the exploitation and control. The understanding of the nation-state intervention, and mainstream

Girls in colonized countries are not human. They were trampled as a tool for comforting soldiers, and no one cared, both then and now. Korean comfort women were seized, sent to army units, and forced to serve as sex slaves. Their agony is still on-going because the Japanese government would not take responsibility for the cruel treatment, and victims’ story is gradually disappearing. In this essay, I will describe the historical background of comfort women, discuss the current problem regarding Korean comfort women, and conclude several suggestions to solve the problem.

The comfort women issue was ignored in the society more than 60 years. They were raped, and killed without any proper reason. Even after the Japanese surrendered in the war, the victims could not stand out to the public because of the society’s perception toward the comfort women. Now, only few people among over the 200,000 victims are still alive. The survived comfort women still get suffered from the past experiences, but the Japanese government does not give a sincere apology to them. Comfort women is a war crime that Japan did during the war and tried to conceal. It is not only a problem of South Korea and Japan, but also a trouble in the human rights. Evan, an activist who has worked with the comfort women movement for more than a decade,

This paper is a review of the book Japan’s Comfort Women-Sexual slavery and prostitution during WWII and the US occupation by Yuki Tanaka. This book was published in 2002 by Routledge. The book deals with the thousands of Japanese, Korean, Chinese and other Asian and European women who were victims of organized sexual violence and prostitution by means of “comfort stations” setup by the Japanese military during World War II.

According to the U.S. Office of War Interrogation Report No. 49, many Korean women were informed that comfort service consisted of “visiting wounded soldiers to make them happy” causing ma many Korean women enlisted on the basis of these misrepresentations. It is important to note that many earlier comfort stations employed the use of Japanese professionals (prostitutes) but this slowly transitioned to a point that after 1939, few comfort women were of Japanese descent. Many women were not deceived, but forcibly taken from their homes or internment camps. Women were threatened with the destruction of their villages and violence against the elders and children. Actions were taken against those who resisted, family member who tried to prevent their daughters and wives from being taken away would be murdered. The Japanese military employed various forms of violence with the sole purpose of increasing the number of women for the comfort stations. These women did not receive jobs promised, in many cases did not protect their family by going but were forced to live in harsh conditions without any autonomy over their lives or bodies. The de-humanization and treatment of these women as military supplies

The chapter argues that this practice destroys the role of women in society, and denigrates them. Honwanna notes that in many areas, women far outnumber men, due to male deaths in warfare, especially on Josina Machal Island. Honwanna narrates the stories of several women she has encountered who, as girls, endured slavery, rape and sexual violence, degradation and military service, often for years at the hands of military and militia

According to one victim Jan Ruff - O-Herne, who testified before U.S House of Representative Committee that many stories of brutality,war and human rights violation are on record but no one knows the shameful story of “comfort stations” where Dutch women were abused sexually by Japanese Army during World War II.