If I were to speak to the Japanese government, there is only one question I would ask:Is it right to ignore me like this as if they did nothing to me? Are they justified after trampling an innocent and fragile teenage girl and make her suffer for the rest of her life? - a former “comfort woman”
Inside of a Comfort Station
A Comfort Station near Shanghai, China
US Army protects survived Comfort Women
Japanese soldiers waiting for their turn
Comfort Women were transferred.
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Corpse of Comfort Women. Deserted somewhere around the boundary between China and Myanmar. In documents written in September 1944, most of them were Korean.
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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. [...]
