%0 Journal Article
%T Violence Against Women and Children Following the 2011 Great East Japan Disaster: Making the Invisible Visible Through Research
%A Azumi Tsuge
%A Keiko Ikeda
%A Mieko Yoshihama
%A Reiko Masai
%A Tomoko Yunomae
%J Violence Against Women
%@ 1552-8448
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1077801218802642
%X This study reports on 82 unduplicated cases of violence against women and children after the Great East Japan Disaster of March 2011. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire from informants who worked with the disaster-affected populations. In addition to domestic violence, reported cases involved sexual assault and unwanted sexual contact, including quid pro quo assault perpetrated by nonintimates. Perpetrators often exploited a sense of fear, helplessness, and powerlessness and used threats to force compliance with sexual demands in exchange for life-sustaining resources. Findings point to the urgent need to develop measures to prevent and respond to postdisaster gender-based violence
%K domestic and sexual violence
%K gender-based violence
%K disaster and humanitarian emergencies
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1077801218802642