Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

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Start: Topical Index: Prosecution: Trials:

Prosecution: Trials:
WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL ON JAPAN'S MILITARY SEXUAL SLAVERY

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»The Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery was a private People's Tribunal organised by Violence Against Women in War-Network Japan (VAWW-NET Japan). As with the Russell Tribunal in 1967, which was not organized by any government or international institution, the verdict of this trial was not legally binding. Its purpose was to gather testimony from victims, and then to try groups and individuals for rape or sexual slavery, i.e., forcing women to sexually service Japanese soldiers. Yayori Matsui, the representative of VAWW-NET Japan, explained that the reason for holding this trial was to respond to the feelings of victims who continue to lose their cases in civil lawsuits.
The group met on December 8, 2000, and was adjourned on December 12, 2000.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)



Types: Wartime Sexual Violence: Asia-Pacific War


[Info] Eriksson, Anna-Karin. »Representing the ‘Comfort Women’: Omissions and Denials in Wartime Historiographies in Japan.« Representing Gender-Based Violence: Global Perspectives. Edited by Caroline Williamson Sinalo et al. Cham 2023: 89-109.

[Info] Hein, Patrick. »The Role of Victim Witness Testimonies for Collective Memory Formation, Recovery from Trauma and Future Reconciliation: The case of the truth commission in South Africa, the international Khmer Rouge tribunal and the Comfort Women's War Crimes Tribunal in Tokyo (2000).« XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology. Yokohama 2014.

[Info] Lévy, Christine. »Le Tribunal international des femmes de Tokyo en 2000. Une réponse féministe au révisionnisme ?« Clio No. 39 (2014): 129-150.

[Info] Matsui, Yayori. »Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal in 2000: Impunity of Wartime Sexual Violence Must be Ended.« Women’s Asia 21 No. 5 (1999): 90-96.

[Info] Matsui, Yayori. »Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan’s Military Sexual Slavery: Memory, Identity, and Society.« East Asia 19 (2001): 119-142.

[Info] Park, Erica. The Trials of a Comfort Woman. Senior Thesis, Claremont McKenna College, 2011.

[Info] Son, Elizabeth W. Embodied Reckonings: “Comfort Women,” Performance, and Transpacific Redress. Ann Arbor 2018.

[Info] Su, Ziliang. »Shiji da shenpan huimou: 2000 nian dongjing nüxing guoji zhanfating pingshu.« Shanghai Shifan Daxue xuebao No. 1 (2001): 26-29.