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Onozawa Akane and Kitahara Minori
Introduction and Translation by Caroline Norma
Abstract: Leading feminist thought leaders Onozawa Akane and Kitahara Minori discuss in dialogue the contemporary relevance of the Japanese military scheme of wartime sexual slavery. They identify the recruitment tactics of Japan’s pornography and prostitution businesses today as similar to those used in the wartime trafficking of women, and suggest that low level comprehension of women’s human rights means male demand for prostitution continues unhindered in Japan, as it has throughout modern history. The two authors suggest that the social context of women’s prostitution, which occurs in conditions of gender equality, must be emphasized in order to combat victim-blaming ideas about women’s ‘choice’ and voluntarism in being sexually exploited. They canvass policy alternatives against prostitution like the law currently in operation in South Korea and France that penalizes sex industry customers
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Thinking About Coercion in the Context of Prostitution: Japan’s Military ‘Comfort Women’ and Contemporary Sexually-Exploited Women | The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
Thinking About Coercion in the Context of Prostitution: Japan’s Military ‘Comfort Women’ and Contemporary Sexually-Exploited Women | The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
Thinking About Coercion in the Context of Prostitution: Japan’s Military ‘Comfort Women’ and Contemporary Sexually-Exploited Women | The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
Thinking About Coercion in the Context of Prostitution: Japan’s Military ‘Comfort Women’ and Contemporary Sexually-Exploited Women | The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
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Dr. Caroline Norma is a research fellow at RMIT University in Australia researching the history of the Japanese military ‘comfort women’ system in wartime New Guinea. She is the author of The Japanese Comfort Women and Sexual Slavery during the China and Pacific Wars (2016).
Dr. Onozawa Akane is a professor of history at Rikkyo University in Tokyo. She is the author of the 2010 monograph Kindai Nihon shakai to kōshō seido: minshūshi to kokusai kankeishi no shiten kara that examines in depth links between Japan’s pre-war sex industry and the ‘comfort women’ system of military prostitution of the China and Pacific wars. She is a core member of VAWW-RAC, and researches a range of topics relating to prostitution in Japanese history.
Kitahara Minori is a non-fiction writer who has published more than ten single and co-authored books. She established in 1996 a business called Love Peace Club in Tokyo that sells “adult goods” for women. Her published books include Poisonous Woman, Patriotic Wives (coauthor), and Sex and Country (coauthor). See an interview of by Ami Chibana here.
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