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Apr. 20th, 2005 04:01 pm
Do you know how frustrating it is to want a book, and when you can't find it in your normally very well-stocked local used bookshops, you actually decide to buy it from an overpriced retail store such as Borders, only to discover that they're sold out as well (in all 5 locations near you), so you'll just have to buy it online, which you were avoiding because you didn't want to have to wait that long?
I'm sure you have some idea.
The book in question is The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War, which looks like one of the better-reviewed books on this topic. I became interested in it after reading a few articles over the past couple of days about how China's all up in arms over one of Japan's new history textbooks, and how Japanese revisionist history is really pissing off both China and Korea. Apparently, Japan is now denying that their military ever forced women (estimates are around 200,000 of them, mainly of Chinese and Korean origin) into being sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during WWII. Hmm, I wonder who I believe. So yeah, I've decided to educate myself a little more on this topic, but there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of literature on it.
I might have mentioned that I recently got Garbage's new album, "Bleed Like Me." Because![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
seldon asked, and because I'd be curious to hear other opinions, I wanted to write about what I thought of it so far. ( Read on; music links included. )
( A meme, should you choose to participate. Winner receives drabble of choice. )
I'm sure you have some idea.
The book in question is The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War, which looks like one of the better-reviewed books on this topic. I became interested in it after reading a few articles over the past couple of days about how China's all up in arms over one of Japan's new history textbooks, and how Japanese revisionist history is really pissing off both China and Korea. Apparently, Japan is now denying that their military ever forced women (estimates are around 200,000 of them, mainly of Chinese and Korean origin) into being sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during WWII. Hmm, I wonder who I believe. So yeah, I've decided to educate myself a little more on this topic, but there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of literature on it.
I might have mentioned that I recently got Garbage's new album, "Bleed Like Me." Because
seldon asked, and because I'd be curious to hear other opinions, I wanted to write about what I thought of it so far. ( Read on; music links included. )( A meme, should you choose to participate. Winner receives drabble of choice. )
