is a History Professor at

Hiroshima University is a Japanese national university located in Higashihiroshima and Hiroshima, Japan. Established in 1929, it was chartered as a university in 1949 following the merge of a number of national educational institutions. History Under the Nationa ...

. He has written extensively about

forced prostitution Forced prostitution, also known as involuntary prostitution or compulsory prostitution, is prostitution or sexual slavery that takes place as a result of coercion by a third party. The terms "forced prostitution" or "enforced prostitution" appea ...

under the

Japanese Empire The also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was a historical nation-state and great power that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the post-World War II 1947 constitution and subsequent forma ...

, as well as in Japan under US military rule. He also writes about the

laws of warfare The law of war is the component of international law that regulates the conditions for initiating war (''jus ad bellum'') and the conduct of warring parties (''jus in bello''). Laws of war define sovereignty and nationhood, states and territor ...

Works

* ''Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II'', Westview Press (1996) * ''Japan's Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution During World War II and the US Occupation'', Routledge (2001) * (co-edited with

Marilyn B. Young Marilyn B. Young (April 25, 1937 – February 19, 2017) was a historian of American foreign relations and professor of history at New York University. She graduated from Samuel J. Tilden High School in Brooklyn in 1953 and Vassar College in 19 ...

) ''Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth Century History'', The New Press (2009)

External links

* "Introducing Yuki TANAKA
Personal information in Japan Focus website

lecture delivered on January 25, 2005 * "Japan admits war crimes conducted in WWII

on Australian Broadcasting Corporation, broadcast August 28, 2002 *

article by Yuki Tanaka in Digital Development Debates, July 2015.
US Congressional Research Service's Report about Comfort Woman
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tanaka, Yuki 1949 births 20th-century Japanese historians Living people Academic staff of Hiroshima University Rikkyo University alumni 21st-century Japanese historians