William Morton Wheeler

Available for the first time in English, this is the definitive account of the practice of sexual slavery the Japanese military perpetrated during World War II by the researcher principally responsible for exposing the Japanese government's responsibility for these atrocities. The large scale imprisonment and rape of thousands of women, who were euphemistically called "comfort women" by the Japanese military, first seized public attention in 1991 when three Korean women filed suit in a Toyko District Court stating that they had been forced into sexual servitude and demanding compensation. Since then the comfort stations and their significance have been the subject of ongoing debate and intense activism in Japan, much if it inspired by Yoshimi's investigations. How large a role did the military, and by extension the government, play in setting up and administering these camps? What type of compensation, if any, are the victimized women due? These issues figure prominently in the current Japanese focus on public memory and arguments about the teaching and writing of history and are central to efforts to transform Japanese ways of remembering the war. Yoshimi Yoshiaki provides a wealth of documentation and testimony to prove the existence of some 2,000 centers where as many as 200,000 Korean, Filipina, Taiwanese, Indonesian, Burmese, Dutch, Australian, and some Japanese women were restrained for months and forced to engage in sexual activity with Japanese military personnel. Many of the women were teenagers, some as young as fourteen. To date, the Japanese government has neither admitted responsibility for creating the comfort station system nor given compensation directly to former comfort women. This English edition updates the Japanese edition originally published in 1995 and includes introductions by both the author and the translator placing the story in context for American readers.

Their Structure, Development and Behavior

Ants

Emergent Evolution and the Development of Societies

Emergent Evolution and the Social

George Baur's Life and Writings

Foibles of Insects and Men

Papers from the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1915-1936

The Organization of Research

Charles Reinhard Fettke

Alfred Cary Hawkins

Elvira Wood

William Diller Matthew

Henryk Arctowski

Alexis Anastay Julien

Charles Craig Mook

Ferdinand Friis Hintze

Marjorie O'Connell

A Study of the Changes in the Distribution of Temperature in Europe and North America During the Years 1900 to 1909

Ants Collected in British Guiana by the Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History During 1911

Originally published in 1928, this volume, by a world authority on the subject, sums up our knowledge of the social insects. It inquires what are the social insects and what it is that makes us call them ‘social’. Terebrantia, aculeata, wasps, bees, ants, and termites are discussed in a succession of chapters, showing how they have evolved, to how great an extent they have developed, and what are the peculiarities of their evolution. Polymorphism, the Social Medium, Guests and Parasites of the Social Insects, are other subjects discussed in this fascinating book.

Their Origin and Evolution

The Social Insects

William Morton Wheeler

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