Reddit reviews The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture)

I'm going to get downvoted for this, but there is a translation issue here. The video never mentions "Comfort Women" (위안부/慰安婦), but instead talks about Teishintai (정신대/挺身隊), or volunteer corps. These were mostly girls, mostly Japanese, who "volunteered" (and in 1944 were recruited) to help out with the war effort in factories and military support roles, in some ways similar to women in wartime in the US and the UK.

Now, I'm almost 99% percent sure there were women who were duped into prostitution via the volunteer corps, but there's a lot of confusion and debate between Korea and Japan between 정신대 and 위안부, the former being generally innocuous, although it does raise some major issues about gendered mobilization in wartime in general. You can read about it in Japanese here and C. Sarah Soh's book on the comfort women, one of the best sources on the issue in my opinion, problematizes this confusion.

My point is, yeah this JAV is in super bad taste, playing off some weird kind of historical nostalgia, but translation and subjectivity are important to consider and from the producers' viewpoint, it's probably not specifically targeting the Comfort Women.

Edit: A word

You can read professor Park Yuha's main ideas here in English and come to your own decision.

http://scholarsinenglish.blogspot.jp/2014/10/summary-of-professor-park-yuhas-book.html

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In my case I also read C Sarah Soh's The Comfort Women.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Comfort-Women-Postcolonial-Sexuality/dp/0226767779

Also having read a few primary documents, I am convinced that in the case of Korea, the women weren't sex slaves of the Japanese military. The women may have been sex slaves of the Korean pimps (in which case the fault of the Japanese government/military lies in not policing the pimps properly.)

And yeah, this is pretty much a North Korean propaganda story. The main group behind the comfort women in S Korea is an organization that is under surveillance by the S Korean government for being pro North Korea and working with North Korean agents. (The leader's husband and sister were arrested and convicted as spies after all.)
Below is a newspaper article so I don't know how long the link will be active.
http://www.sankei.com/world/news/140524/wor1405240024-n1.html

Barely knowledgeable reporters? You mean the people who risk their job and reputations when they're reporting?

OK, sure you mean these books?

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0231120338/?tag=annals

http://www.amazon.com/The-Comfort-Women-Enforced-Prostitution/dp/0393316947/ref=pd_sim_b_1

http://www.amazon.com/The-Comfort-Women-Postcolonial-Sexuality/dp/0226767779/ref=pd_sim_b_2

This ones from a Philipino woman

http://www.amazon.com/Comfort-Woman-Filipinas-Prostitution-Japanese/dp/0847691497/ref=pd_sim_b_4

And if you can read Korean, here are the Korean books.

http://www.yes24.com/SearchCorner/Search/List?query=%C1%BE%B1%BA%C0%A7%BE%C8%BA%CE&domain=ALL&theme=%C1%BE%B1%BA%C0%A7%BE%C8%BA%CE&detail_yn=Y&scode=026

ok I'm tired of arguing with you, there is no point to this.


If you really want to read up on facts and the truth have a read of this book by South Korean professor Soh:

Chunghee Sarah Soh's (2009) book "The Comfort Women" and LEARN that Japan had no policy to coerce women into prostitution:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Comfort-Women-Postcolonial-Sexuality/dp/0226767779

C. Sarah Soh is professor of anthropology at San Francisco State University and the author of Women in Korean Politics.