Download or read book The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War written by George Hicks and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997-10-17 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most extensive record available in English of the ugly story."—Elisabeth Rubinfein, New York Newsday Over 100,000 women across Asia were victims of enforced prostitution by the Japanese Imperial Forces during World War II. Until as recently as 1993 the Japanese government continued to deny this shameful aspect of its wartime history. George Hicks's book is the only history in English regarding this terrible enslavement of women.