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In this essay Kathryn Witt critically explores the little-known Japanese “comfort women” system — a system that forced women and girls into sexual slavery during and preceding the second World War. The essay starts with an overview of Japan’s colonization and formation of the comfort women system. Subsequently, it compares the Japanese system to the Korean and Dutch comfort women systems, before turning to the Tokyo War Crimes Trials. Witt argues that the United States government, through their representatives, manipulated the aforementioned trials to gain an ally in the Far East. Ultimately, Witt argues that this manipulation facilitated the historical blindness that is associated with the Japanese comfort women system during the second World War.
Kathryn J. Witt (Tue,) studied this question.