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Worldview

Sexual Exploitation in Japan

Listen to interviews from Worldview that outline the past and present of sexual exploitation in Japan, with attempts to end today's human rights abuses and come to terms with the past.

Audio The Japanese Sex Industry In Context
Norma Field, Professor in the department of East Asian Languages and Civilization at the University of Chicago
Originally aired 10.4.00
Audio Sexual Exploitation in Japan Today: Trafficking of Thai Women
 Regan Ralph, Executive Director of the Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch
More information is available at www.hrw.org
Originally aired 10.9.00
Audio Sexual Exploitation in Japan’s Past: Korean ‘Comfort Women’ Confront the Past
 - Soon-Duk Kim, one of fifteen plaintiffs in the first ever class action lawsuit filed in the U.S. against Japan for war crimes in WWII, was a former "comfort woman” for Japanese army. She was taken as a slave in 1937 and forced to accompany Japanese soldiers as they advanced through Northern China.
- Hyejin, Buddhist monk, co-founder and executive director of the House of Sharing in Seoul
Remarks are translated by Inhe Choi from KANWIN (Korean American Women in Need)
Originally aired 10.10.00

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