History and Justice

Interview with Kim Hak Soon in August 1991
Interview with Kim Hak Soon, a sixty-eight former Comfort Woman, who testified in public for the first time in Korea that she was forced to serve Japanese solders sexually. She was born in Manchuria and sold by her stepfather to a Japanese military in 1941 when she was [...]

(Photo from http://www.no-hoju.or.kr)
On March 1, 2005, the Korean National Assembly passed a revision of the Civil Law that included Hoju system repeal. The abolishment of Hoju system is a significant step toward women’s equality in Korean society. Many women’s organizations have made tremendous efforts to abolish this biased law over years and [...]

On Wednesday, Sep. 13 2006, the International Relations Committee of the House of Representatives passed Resolution No. 759, calling on Japan to accept responsibility for sexual slavery of the Japanese military during the World War II era.
Estimated 100,000 to 200,000 women of Korea, China, and other South Asian countries were tricked or forced [...]

Literally it means the religion of Confucius.  But it’s more close to codes of conducts than a religion that people can relate to through rituals.  The founder, Confucius is a Chinese philosopher (551 ~ 479 BC) who taught morality, loyalty and strict social relationships. Confucianism especially emphasizes social relationship codes between the young and the old, men [...]

Before and during World War II, estimated 100,000 to 200,000 women were tricked or forced to serve as sexual slaves for months or years by the Japanese military. More than 80 percent of women were believed Korean. Many of the rest were Chinese, Philippines, Indonesians, Taiwanese and Burmese whose country was under the Japanese occupation. [...]