2007-09-08
■ Susan Brownmiller 2 
米議会調査局（CRS）報告書が出た頃に、Yuki Tanakaって誰だ？と一部で噂になった田中利幸先生ですが、
【謎の慰安婦本】著者・田中ユキの正体は親北研究員 2007/04/14
http://ganesh.iza.ne.jp/blog/entry/151555/
丁寧に調べ上げてるが、調べれば調べるほど妄想が膨らんでいく過程が面白い。また、コメント欄も大爆笑だったりする。Yuki Tanakaだけじゃ、ユキかユーキかもわからんし、第一、日本語の名前に馴染みの薄い外国人にはYUKIが男か女かさえわからんと思うのだが、なんでいちいち考えが自国文化中心なんだろ？？？？
先生の著作
Japan's Comfort Women (Asia's Transformations)
- 作者: Yuki Tanaka
- 出版社/メーカー: Routledge
- 発売日: 2001/12/21
- メディア: ペーパーバック
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この本の序文をSusan Brownmillerさんが書いてます。以下、引用します（なんちゃって翻訳は、これまたぼちぼちと・・・）。
Foreword
By Susan Brownmiller
In December 1991, three Korean women who had been abducted into Japanese military brothels during World War II filed a dramatic class-action lawsuit in a Tokyo court. After a half-century of shame, anonymity, and hardship, the aged survivors were ready to tell their personal stories, and to demand an apology and reparations from the Japanese government on behalf of an estimated 100,000 victims.
The women's campaign had begun in Seoul with a call for a public memorial and had escalated into impromptu confrontations with Japanese diplomats. Their tactical leader, an active feminist, was Professor Yun Chun Ok of Eiwa Women's University. As a young schoolgirl, Professor Yun herself had narrowly escaped abduction and conscription into the brothels. Aided by church women and a sisterly coalition of Japanese feminists who were equally intent on righting an historic wrong, the Koreans' demand for belated justice was covered widely by the foreign media, putting the term "comfort women" into the international lexicon.
Thus, the world learned of a highly organized trafficking system during the Pacific War run by the Japanese Imperial Army, secret police, and local "labor recruiters" using the ruse of legitimate jobs for good pay. Girls and women taken from country village, or hijacked in a broad daylight on city streets, became a human cargo that was transported to barracks on frontline posts, jungle airstrips, and base camps, where the captives remained in sexual servitude until the war's end.
Japan's military brothels were not exactly an undocumented story when the Korean comfort women launched their international campaign. Two books on the subject published in 1970s had assumed a modest place in Japan's growing literature of conscience, but the research of Kim Il Myon, a Korean, and Senda Kako, a Japanese, had produced little interest and only scant indignation. It took the rise of an indigenous feminist movement in Asia to supply the moral outrage and place the dormant issue in a modern context.
Yuki Tanaka, the son of a Japanese military man, is the latest historian, and certainly the most meticulous, exhaustive scholar, to explore the dimensions of the comfort women story. In addition to ferreting out fresh documentations from buried and forgotten sources, he creates and original overview by moving backward and forward in time from the World War II era. He offers a capsule history of Japanese prostitution in foreign and domestic ports in the nineteenth century as Japan sought to expand its international trade (making the interesting point that the trade in women's flesh helped to jump-start capitalist enterprise). He compares Japan's wartime comfort stations with the brothels hastily set up by the defeated rulers for American soldiers during the postwar Occupation (the coercion was economic need rather than brute force). And he notes the similarities between the comfort women's slavery-like barracks and the "rape camps" holding Bosnian women in the ethnic wars that tore apart the former Yugoslavia.
Professor Tanaka offers no excuses for what his country did to women in the Second World War II, but he sees it as part of a pervasive pattern of worldwide male aggression and domination. Trafficking in women has been on the increase, in China, Vietnam, Russia, and Eastern Europe, ever since the fall of communism exposed the destitute economies of these unfortunate countries. The moral lawlessness accompanying crude, rudimentary capitalism is not very different from the brutal sexual exploitation that accompanies warfare. The question for the future, of course is can it be stopped?
Susan Brownmillerauthor of Against our
Will: Men, Women and Rape
(pp. xv-xvi)
