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To Bear in Silence: How the Erasure of 'Comfort Women' in Taiwan ...

These women hailed from all of Japan's colonized or occupied areas across East Asia, from “Korea, Taiwan, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and the.

Comfort women | Definition, History, & Facts | Britannica

Comfort women, a euphemism for women who provided sexual services to Japanese Imperial Army troops from 1932 to 1945 and who generally lived ...

Curating “Comfort Women” | Journal of Asian Studies

Using the Liji Alley Museum as a vantage point, this article examines the politics of remembering “comfort women” in contemporary China.

'Game theory' paper reopens wounds of S Korea's 'comfort women'

Women forced to work in Japanese military brothels during WW2 renew call for justice as memories come under attack.

Holocaust vs. comfort women - The Korea Times

Koreans are still at pains about the misdeeds committed against their ancestors, but less so about Jewish victims.

Who are the Ianfu (Comfort Women)?

Thus, in order to minimise these rapes, the Ianfu system was used to procure women for the sexual gratification of the Japanese soldiers. The Ianfu symbolise ...

Five Insights into the 'Comfort Women' Protest Movement in South ...

Protesters have been gathering in front of the former Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea every Wednesday since January 1992.

Comfort Women: Former World War Two sex slaves demand Japan ...

Comfort women were forced into sexual slavery by Japanese military before and during the Second World War.

The HORRIFYING Fate of the "Comfort Women" of WW2 - YouTube

Comfort Woman, Comfort Women, Comfort Women WW2, Comfort Women Japan It was the darkest hour of World War II when a Dutch woman named Jan ...

'Comfort women must fall'? Japanese governmental responses to ...

This article discusses four cases around the world in which Japanese government officials have demanded the removal of comfort women statues: 1) Glendale, ...

Out of the Darkness: The Story of a 'Comfort Woman' - Sage Journals

The 'Korean Researchers on the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery' was set up in Korea in 1990 by people who are working or teaching in universities in ...

Filipino 'comfort women' seek apology from Japan - UCA News

Filipino "comfort women" today demanded an apology and compensation from the Japanese government for being forced into sexual slavery during World War II.

Asian Studies: Comfort Women: A Bibliography - Research Guides

May 28-December 1, 2019: “Korean Comfort Women and the U.S. Discoveries” exhibit at the UCI Science Library, Room 261. The Exhibit is sponsored ...

Horrors of past still haunt 'comfort women' | V-Day

Alex Kuffner BRISTOL , RI-- Ok Sun Kim was 16 years old when the Japanese soldiers dragged her from her home. For the next eight years she ...

An Unforgettable Ordeal: Chinese 'Comfort Women' in World War II

This paper explores the multiple factors that resulted in the silence of Chinese comfort women survivors in both wartime and the postwar period.

A Comfort Women Redress Movement without Comfort Women

3 Yi Yong-su described her and her fellow former comfort women as essentially tools used by the Korean. Council. In doing so, she cast doubt on ...

Recalling the strong voices of “comfort women” survivors

By Mina Watanabe: On May 9, 2020, Japanese Military “Comfort Woman” survivor Lee Yong-soo held a press conference to criticize the Korean Council for ...

Thoughts on the “Comfort Women Statue” in Berlin

In September 2020, the Korea Verband, a group of Korean Germans, erected a “Comfort Women Statue,” also known as the “Peace Statue,” in central Berlin's ...

Comfort Women - SpringerLink

Sexual exploitation has always been a part of war. However, the Japanese military not only exploited women sexually, but also actually enslaved them. Hundreds ...

Philippine 'Comfort Women' Demand Justice Ahead of Japanese ...

Philippine women who said they were detained and used as sex slaves by Japanese military during World War Two are demanding issue be raised ...