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Why is the euphemism "comfort women" so heavily used?
According to Kirsten Orreill, 'Who are the Ianfu (Comfort Women)?', in New Voices in Japanese Studies, 2, the term is a calque, a literal translation of the Japanese bureaucratic term:
The term it …
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