Between 1932 and the end of the Second World War, an estimated 200,000 women and girls were enslaved by the Japanese military, and forced into sexual servitude.
Japan’s so-called ‘comfort stations’ were hellish places, and 90% of those who were imprisoned in one did not survive the war…
Worst of all, these institutions were organised by the Japanese government itself.
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Sources:
https://www.mofa.go.jp/a_o/na/kr/page4e_000364.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/70-years-later-a-korean-comfort-woman-demands-apology-from-japan/2015/04/22/d1cf8794-e7ab-11e4-9767-6276fc9b0ada_story.html
https://remembercomfortwomen.org/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/world/asia/japan-south-korea-comfort-women.html
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2021/04/south-korea-disappointing-japan-ruling-fails-to-deliver-justice-to-comfort-women/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/obituaries/kim-hak-soon-overlooked.html#commentsContainer
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/12/04/940819094/photos-there-still-is-no-comfort-for-the-comfort-women-of-the-philippines
https://www.awf.or.jp/e1/facts-12.html
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/seeking-the-true-story-of-the-comfort-women-j-mark-ramseyer