Comfort Women
by Yoshiaki Yoshimi
This is an Online Internet Book Club on Comfort Women by Yoshiaki Yoshimi. Discuss this book, share your thoughts, make comments, ask questions, offer responses...
Description
Yoshimi provides a wealth of documentation and testimony to prove the existence of some 2,000 "comfort stations" where as many as 200,000 women of varying nationalities, euphemistically known as "comfort women," were imprisoned and forced to engage in sexual activity with Japanese military personnel.
Book Club Questions for Comfort Women (Fiction)
Suggested Book Club Questions for Comfort Women (Fiction)
The following book club questions provide a starting point for creating a reading group discussion on Comfort Women:
- Did Yoshiaki Yoshimi emphasize any specific themes throughout Comfort Women? What do you think Yoshiaki Yoshimi is trying to explain with this theme?
- What was unique about the setting of Comfort Women and how did it affect the storyline?
- Could you relate to any of the characters? If so, which ones and why?
- How do characters change or learn throughout Comfort Women? What events caused these changes? Have you or someone you know experienced the same thing?
- How does Comfort Women reveal Yoshiaki Yoshimi's own perspectives about people and the world? For a lively discussion, describe why you think Yoshiaki Yoshimi is liberal or conservative.
- Did certain parts of Comfort Women affect you emotionally? Why did it evoke those emotions?
- Did Yoshiaki Yoshimi's point of view on things lend new perspective to your own view of the world?
Book Club Questions for Comfort Women (for Non-Fiction)
Suggested Book Club Questions for Comfort Women (Non-fiction)
The following book club questions provide a starting point for creating a reading group discussion on Comfort Women:
- Did Yoshiaki Yoshimi make persuasive arguments in Comfort Women? Did Comfort Women change or reinforce your opinion on the subject?
- What did you learn from Comfort Women?
- How does Yoshiaki Yoshimi present the information and did you enjoy it?
- How is Yoshiaki Yoshimi biased within Comfort Women? Is there a political slant to what is being discussed and how does it impact the book?
- What, if anything, does Comfort Women make you want to read next? Why?
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