Author: Kevin Peter Blackburn, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore - Google Scholar, ORCID

Abstract: »The sexual enslavement of ‘comfort women’ in Malaysia and Singapore during the Second World War by the Japanese military produced a transnational history, remembered through transnational memories. While there were significant numbers of Korean and Japanese women in the comfort stations, the Japanese military also enslaved local Chinese, Malay, Indian, and Eurasian women. Women from China, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Thailand were also used to provide sexual services, as were captured European women. This article explores not only the history of these diverse groups of women who served the Japanese military during the Japanese Occupation of Malaysia and Singapore, but also the contradictions produced through how they have been remembered (or not) in the nation-states of Malaysia and Singapore. Memory suppression of the comfort women in Malaysia and Singapore by the state has been a dominant pattern.« (Source: Women's History Review)

Wikipedia: History of Asia: History of Japan / Shōwa era | History of Asia: History of Malaysia / Japanese occupation of Malaya | History of Asia: History of Singapore / Japanese occupation of Singapore | Prostitution: Forced prostitution / Comfort women | Sex and the law: Wartime sexual violence / Sexual violence in World War II | War: Pacific War / Japanese war crimes