Table of Contents “...-- A multifaceted issue -- Military control of prostitution -- Wartime sexual violence -- Officially licensed prostitution -- Japan's defeat and postwar reparations -- Claims by a variety of victims'groups -- The case of the comfort women -- Why Japan's military regulations did not prevent rape and enforced prostitution -- The Asian Women's Fund -- The debate over the AWF and the failrue of dialogue -- Correctives to empiricism -- Comparison with the German Foundation "remembrance, responsibility, and future" -- The evolving concept of women's human rights -- International responses to violence against women -- The Women's International War Crimes Tribunal -- Movement toward resolution -- Korea's challenge to Japan -- Toward dialogue and reconciliation....”