One of Tanaka's main arguments is the constant denial of Japanese comfort women. It became something we no longer talked about. Tanaka mentions his father and uncles: “…very little reference was made to the lives of the local Chinese…” (p. 2). They remained silent when it came to speaking about the wrongs of war. Soldiers and the government feign ignorance when it comes to comfort women. The leader of the Allied troops did the same by covering up the sex crimes of occupying soldiers in Japan. An example of this is when “…SCAP issued a…press code for Japan and controlled press articles by introducing post-censorship” (p. 124). They also deliberately hid the wrongs of their troops so that they would not come back to the States. Women during and after were seen as tools to satisfy these men, allowing them to escape from the real world. The government has turned its head in the other direction. Tanaka's next argument is that sex becomes a source of oppression, brutality, and money in war. In his introduction to the book, he states: “Sex is a beautiful and extremely pleasurable human relationship with a partner” (p. 1). As soon as a war enters the scene, it is used for oppression in one country dominated by another. A woman named Yi Sunok was transferred from a comfort center to a comfort center in Singapore, where she again demanded that her body be returned to Japanese soldiers. What is interesting is that the Japanese did not use their own women for prostitution and if they were used it was only licensed prostitutes. The women used for lower-ranking soldiers were Korean and Taiwanese women. These two countries both belonged to Japan as colonies. They were forced to become prostitutes, they had no way to get rid... middle of paper ... they only lied to their wives. Overall, Yuki Tanaka was able to show how the Japanese and all countries around the world can hide things that they don't want to be known, either because they are ashamed of what they have done, or because they simply do not want to acknowledge that they committed a brutal crime against women, even those who were not even born during this period. this time. His arguments throughout the book largely convinced that during a war, things can be changed, thus showing the ugliness of dehumanization. No country is innocent when it comes to war. It makes you think about how everyone can experience the Holocaust and racism against ethnicity, but not racism and sexism against women. Works Cited Tanaka, Toshiyuki. Japan's Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution During World War II and the American Occupation. London: Routledge, 2002. Print.

Essay / One of Tanaka's main arguments is the constant denial of Japanese comfort women. It became something we no longer talked about. Tanaka mentions his father and uncles: “…very little reference was made to the lives of the local Chinese…” (p. 2). They remained silent when it came to speaking about the wrongs of war. Soldiers and the government feign ignorance when it comes to comfort women. The leader of the Allied troops did the same by covering up the sex crimes of occupying soldiers in Japan. An example of this is when “…SCAP issued a…press code for Japan and controlled press articles by introducing post-censorship” (p. 124). They also deliberately hid the wrongs of their troops so that they would not come back to the States. Women during and after were seen as tools to satisfy these men, allowing them to escape from the real world. The government has turned its head in the other direction. Tanaka's next argument is that sex becomes a source of oppression, brutality, and money in war. In his introduction to the book, he states: “Sex is a beautiful and extremely pleasurable human relationship with a partner” (p. 1). As soon as a war enters the scene, it is used for oppression in one country dominated by another. A woman named Yi Sunok was transferred from a comfort center to a comfort center in Singapore, where she again demanded that her body be returned to Japanese soldiers. What is interesting is that the Japanese did not use their own women for prostitution and if they were used it was only licensed prostitutes. The women used for lower-ranking soldiers were Korean and Taiwanese women. These two countries both belonged to Japan as colonies. They were forced to become prostitutes, they had no way to get rid... middle of paper ... they only lied to their wives. Overall, Yuki Tanaka was able to show how the Japanese and all countries around the world can hide things that they don't want to be known, either because they are ashamed of what they have done, or because they simply do not want to acknowledge that they committed a brutal crime against women, even those who were not even born during this period. this time. His arguments throughout the book largely convinced that during a war, things can be changed, thus showing the ugliness of dehumanization. No country is innocent when it comes to war. It makes you think about how everyone can experience the Holocaust and racism against ethnicity, but not racism and sexism against women. Works Cited Tanaka, Toshiyuki. Japan's Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution During World War II and the American Occupation. London: Routledge, 2002. Print.

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