ShortHand: Japan’s 'Comfort Women'
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