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This
issue features two articles on the continuing international and domestic
controversy
over the 'comfort women', the sex slaves of the wartime Japanese
military.
The first concerns the prostitution of Japanese girls and young women
to Soviet troops in Manchuria at war's end; the second links the comfort
woman
controversy to questions of prostitution in contemporary Japan. The
articles
make
plain that concern about issues concerning prostitution and sexual slavery
are by no means limited to foreigners but rather, that lively debate
continues
within
Japan sustained for many decades by conscientious researchers and
feminist
activists.
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