Yougoslavie, fin des années cinquante. Dans un petit port de l'Adriatique, Anton et Jak, dix et onze ans, assouvissent leurs rêves de piraterie en volant des bijoux, de l'argent et des instruments de navigation sur les bateaux qu'ils astiquent pendant le jour - tout un butin qu'ils entreposent dans une cave laissée à l'abandon. Alors qu'ils doivent cesser leurs cambriolages, car pêcheurs et miliciens recherchent activement les voleurs du port, les deux garçons font la connaissance d'un ivrogne... épisode N 1 : Le Pirate Sans Nom Où le jeune Anton Petrack entend parler pour la première fois du Pirate Sans Nom et de l'énigme de son fabuleux trésor.

'One of the achievements of this volume is that it successfully personalises some of the 'comfort' women. It exhaustively details the inhumane process by which they were 'recruited' or forced into what amounted to sexual slavery and the degrading day-to-day treatment meted out to them by recruiters, managers and soldiers if the women refused to 'comfort' soldiers, became pregnant or were ill. Even more significantly, this volume attempts to establish the figures that helped to implement the 'comfort' women system, including senior Japanese military officers, Ministry of War bureaucrats, brothel owners and their recruiters and medical staff.' - Intersections, Issue 9.

Autorentext

Tanaka, Yuki

Klappentext

Japan's Comfort Women tells the harrowing story of the "comfort women" who were forced to enter prostitution to serve the Japanese Imperial army, often living in appalling conditions of sexual slavery. Using a wide range of primary sources, the author for the first time links military controlled prostitution with enforced prostitution. He uncovers new and controversial information about the role of the US' occupation forces in military controlled prostitution, as well as the subsequent "cover-up" of the existence of such a policy. This groundbreaking book asks why US occupation forces did little to help the women, and argues that military authorities organised prostitution to prevent the widespread incidence of GI rape of Japanese women, and to control the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.

Zusammenfassung
This groundbreaking book will have a deep impact on the ongoing international debate which surrounds this highly controversial and emotive issue.

Inhalt
Introduction; Chapter 1 The origins of the comfort women system; Chapter 2 Procurement of comfort women and their lives as sexual slaves; Chapter 3 Comfort women in the Dutch East Indies; Chapter 4 Why did the US forces ignore the comfort women issue?; Chapter 5 Sexual violence committed by the Allied occupation forces against Japanese women: 19451946; Chapter 6 Japanese comfort women for the Allied occupation forces; Epilogue; Notes; Index;