![]() ![]() Tamura Taijirō's Shunpuden (1947), the earliest known and arguably the most truthful and realistic Japanese novel to feature Chosenese comfort women in China, was subject to censorship by GHQ/SCAP (General Headquarters, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers) officials during the Allied Occupation of Japan. They may be compared to popular and even academic histories that readers assume to be true, but which are full of falsehoods that have gained the status of truth in tabloid history. Some authors have claimed that their story was based on actual experiences, which does necessarily make the stories truthful. ![]() The titles shown here are just of a few of those I will eventually introduced here. They vary in quality and ideological treatment. Quite a few fictional works in English and Japanese feature so-called "comfort women" (ianfu 慰安婦), some as protagonists. ![]() Comfort women in popular fiction Objects of praise, sympathy, pity, and fantasy By William Wetherall ![]()
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