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Course Code etc
Academic Year 2023
College College of Arts
Course Code AC342
Theme・Subtitle 日本女性史
Class Format Face to face (all classes are face-to-face)
Class Format (Supplementary Items)
Campus
Campus Ikebukuro
Semester Spring Semester
DayPeriod・Room Tue.2・M301
Credit 2
Course Number HIS3500
Language Japanese
Class Registration Method Course Code Registration
Grade (Year) Required 配当年次は開講学部のR Guideに掲載している科目表で確認してください。
prerequisite regulations
Acceptance of Other Colleges
course cancellation
Online Classes Subject to 60-Credit Upper Limit
Relationship with Degree Policy
Notes
Text Code AC342

【Course Objectives】

Under themes of the "comfort women" issue of the Japanese military and modern licensed prostitution systems, this course takes an overview of the historical relationship between modern Japan's licensed prostitution system and the comfort women problem of the Japanese military, while making comparisons with other countries and considering the issues of armed forces and sexual facilities/sexual violence that continues even after the war.

【Course Contents】

What is the issue of "comfort women" in the Japanese military, and why has it not been resolved even today? In addition to answering these questions, the lectures will place a spotlight on the relationship between this problem and modern licensed prostitution systems. The licensed prostitution system and the comfort women issue were separate, and many "comfort women" victims were people who had nothing to do with the sex trade (i.e., prostitution). However, it is known that women sold into prostitution, the geisha trade, and the barmaid trade became comfort women in some cases, that such cases were common among Japanese comfort women, and that the two were deeply related. The lectures will also touch on the fact that the modern Japanese licensed prostitution system and human trafficking were hotbeds for the issue of comfort women in the Japanese military. It will make comparisons with sexual facilities and sexual violence in other countries and armed forces, and further touch on the situation surrounding poverty and the sex trade/sexual violence in contemporary Japan.

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