Comfort women: The continuing saga of the Filipina

Date of Publication

2001

Document Type

Master's Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts in History

Subject Categories

Asian History

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

History

Thesis Adviser

Carmelita C. Corpuz

Defense Panel Chair

Antonio Hila

Defense Panel Member

Luis Dery

Jose Victor Jimenez

Abstract/Summary

This paper is a historical study of the Filipina comfort women. Twenty elderly women were interviewed on their lives before, during and after the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. The interviews emphasized on their capture, ordeal and escape from the Japanese garrisons or locations of captivity. The Japanese political, educational and military institutions were also analyzed. Likewise, this study also relates the changes brought about by their public disclosure of their wartime experience in the light of the efforts of the organization, LILA Filipina. The campaign to attract women who were once sexual slaves of the Japanese Imperial Army started in 1992 and since then, various activities were undertaken to draw and sustain public awareness in the comfort women's struggle towards the recognition of their plight. This study is updated with the responses of both the Japanese and Philippine governments. This also presents the stand of various international institutions on the issue.This study is undertaken in order to present another dimension of the Pacific War--that of the women noncombatants who were garrisoned and raped by the Japanese soldiers.

Abstract Format

html

Language

English

Format

Print

Accession Number

TG03318

Shelf Location

Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F Henry Sy Sr. Hall

Physical Description

627 leaves ; 28 cm.

Keywords

Comfort women--Philippines; Women; Filipino; World War; 1939-1945--Women

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