THIS IS ONE WOMAN'S RIVETING STORY OF STRENGTH, COURAGE AND PROMISES KEPT. The back cover of the English edition reads as follows.ĭURING WORLD WAR II, THE JAPANESE FORCED 200,000 KOREAN WOMEN TO BE SEX SLAVES FOR THEIR SOLDIERS. Yong (lyong) ui ttaldŭl (Wianbu yŏin ui salmgwa chugŭm) Minneapolis (MN): MADhouse Press LLC, 2014 The English and Korean editions of William Andrew'sĭaughters of the Dragon: A Comfort Woman's Story I have also listed it on The Steamy East site because some of the stories, while marketed as 'literature', have more the feel of 'genre' fiction, with elements of mystery and intrigue and even sexual titilation. This page is associated with the 'Comfort women' feature under the 'Legacy issues' group in the 'The Sovereign Empire' part of the 'The Empires of Japan' feature under 'History' on the Yosha Bunko website. And all film versions have distorted the story, the first to avoid censorship during the Occupation, the remakes to avoid touching sensitive nerves among Japan's small but reactive populations of Chosenese and Koreans.

Tamura Taijirō's Shunpuden (1947), the earliest known and arguably the most truthful and realistic Japanese novel to feature Chosenese comfort women in China, was subject to censorship by GHQ/SCAP (General Headquarters, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers) officials during the Allied Occupation of Japan. They may be compared to popular and even academic histories that readers assume to be true, but which are full of falsehoods that have gained the status of truth in tabloid history. Some authors have claimed that their story was based on actual experiences, which does necessarily make the stories truthful. The titles shown here are just of a few of those I will eventually introduced here. They vary in quality and ideological treatment. Quite a few fictional works in English and Japanese feature so-called 'comfort women' (ianfu 慰安婦), some as protagonists. Comfort women in popular fiction Objects of praise, sympathy, pity, and fantasy By William Wetherall

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