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Asia. Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in occupied countries and territories before and during World War II. [2][3][4][5] The term comfort women is a translation of the Japanese ianfu (慰安婦), [6] a euphemism that literally means "comforting, consoling woman". [7]
Masao Maruyama (Japanese Army officer) Masaharu Takenaga. Jinzaburō Masaki. Inaba Masao. Iwao Matsuda (general) Morio Matsudaira. Iwane Matsui. Takuro Matsui.
Approximately 350,000 American women joined the military during World War II. Women also took part in the resistances of France, Italy, Poland, and Yugoslavia, as well as in the British SOE and American OSS which aided these. Some women were forced into sexual slavery: the Imperial Japanese Army forced hundreds of thousands in Asia to become ...
Mariya Nikitichna Tsukanova (Russian: Мария Никитична Цуканова; 14 September 1924 – 14 August 1945) was a medical orderly in the 355th Independent Guards Naval Infantry Battalion of the Pacific Fleet during World War II. After she was killed in action in August 1945 she was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the ...
The Hiroshima Maidens (Japanese: 原爆乙女 (Genbaku otome); lit. 'atomic bomb maidens') are a group of 25 Japanese women who were school-age girls when they were seriously disfigured as a result of the thermal flash of the fission bomb dropped on Hiroshima on the morning of August 6, 1945. They subsequently went on a highly publicized ...
Ruby Bradley. Colonel Ruby Bradley (December 19, 1907 – May 28, 2002) was a United States Army Nurse Corps officer, a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II, and one of the most decorated women in the United States military. [1] She was a native of Spencer, West Virginia but lived in Falls Church, Virginia, for over 50 years.
Niijima Yae. Yodo-dono. Yoshihime. Yuki no Kata. Categories: Women in war by country. Japanese warriors. Women in war in East Asia. Japanese women by occupation.
The 442nd Infantry Regiment (Japanese: 第442歩兵連隊) was an infantry regiment of the United States Army.The regiment including the 100th Infantry Battalion is best known as the most decorated in U.S. military history, [4] and as a fighting unit composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry who fought in World War II.