The Exploitation of Asian Women in the Japanese Comfort Women System During World War II

In this essay, the author

• Explains how the japanese imperial army invented a comfort women system to cope with rape and venereal diseases during the pacific war.
• Explains that asian women were subjected to discriminatory attitudes towards them by men, which left them with almost no opportunity to avoid a life in low social classes.
• Explains how low-class japanese women of low social status turned to untraditional ways of making more income. prostitution was seen as the last chance, and perhaps the only opportunity for a "better life."

• Explains how the japanese imperial army invented a comfort women system to cope with rape and venereal diseases during the pacific war.
• Explains that asian women were subjected to discriminatory attitudes towards them by men, which left them with almost no opportunity to avoid a life in low social classes.
• Explains how low-class japanese women of low social status turned to untraditional ways of making more income. prostitution was seen as the last chance, and perhaps the only opportunity for a "better life."
• Explains that the legality of prostitution in japan was used by the government as a way to neutralize society's negative attitudes about sexual slavery. the system changed as the involvement in world war ii deepened.
• Analyzes how the targeting of low-class asian women was a combination of desperateness for opportunities and lack of education that made them vulnerable to concepts of deception.
• Explains that the "campaign of deception" was not limited to japanese women, but was used on women of non-japanese ethnicity.
• Explains that the japanese government began an imperialistic movement that involved the colonization of surrounding territories during world war ii.
• Explains how the japanese army used the concept of "colonial subjects" to rationalize their unethical "recruitment" of non-japanese women.
• Explains how korean women became the most sought after prostitutes during the later part of world war ii because of their unique morals.
• Analyzes the dehumanization of non-japanese comfort women by the japanese army. they were deprived of their individualistic qualities and forced to abide japanese cultural norms.
• Analyzes how the japanese imperial army created a system of "regulated prostitution" that oppressed asian women into sexual slavery. the extent of racism showed at the end of world war ii exemplifies the fact that comfort stations were used to suppress women of non-japanese race
• Opines that the loss of world war ii was a major downfall of imperialistic japan. the country was defeated and had found itself covered with incriminating evidence.
• Analyzes how the mass murder of korean comfort women proves that the comfort system in japan during world war ii, was founded on racist and social discrimination.
• Argues that unforgiving stigma must be eliminated if scholars want to "illuminate the past" and develop a greater understanding of the future.
• Opines that little has been done to give victims of "comfort stations" any form of restitution or compensation. scholar dongwoo lee halm fights for the minimal amount of reparation.
• Opines that the japanese comfort women system was designed towards lower-class women and/or non-japanese women. these women were shamed and seen as undesirables by many of their peers.
• Explains that sexual slavery and the comfort women of world war ii. berkeley journal of international law 6th ser. 21.2 (2003): 1-15.
• Cites hicks, george l., lie, john, and ling, cheah w.
• Cites min, pyong g., park, kyeyoung, and piper, nicola.