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  2. Comfort women - Wikipedia

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    During World War II, Japanese troops forced hundreds of thousands of women from Australia, Burma, China, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, East Timor, New Guinea and other countries into sexual enslavement for Japanese soldiers; however, the majority of the women were from Korea. [8]

  3. Tokyo Rose - Wikipedia

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    Walter Kaner (May 5, 1920 – June 26, 2005) was a journalist and radio personality who broadcast using the name Tokyo Mose during and after World War II. Kaner broadcast on U.S. Army Radio, at first to offer comic rejoinders to the propaganda broadcasts of Tokyo Rose and then as a parody to entertain U.S. troops abroad.

  4. Diary of a Japanese Military Comfort Station Manager

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    Diary of a Japanese Military Comfort Station Manager is a book of diaries written by a clerk who worked in Japanese "comfort stations", where the Japanese military trafficked women and girls into sexual slavery, in Burma and Singapore during World War II. The author, a Korean businessman, kept a daily diary between 1922 and 1957.

  5. Women in World War II - Wikipedia

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    Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army before and during World War II. [ 73 ] [ 74 ] [ 75 ] The name "comfort women" is a translation of the Japanese euphemism ianfu (慰安婦) and the similar Korean term wianbu (위안부).

  6. Statue of Peace - Wikipedia

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    The Statue of Peace (Korean: 평화의 소녀상; RR: Pyeonghwaui sonyeosang; Japanese: 平和の少女像, Heiwano shōjo-zō), often shortened to Sonyeosang in Korean or Shōjo-zō in Japanese (literally "statue of girl") [1] and sometimes called the Comfort Woman Statue (慰安婦像, Ianfu-zō), [2] is a symbol of the victims of sexual slavery, known euphemistically as comfort women, by ...

  7. Tjideng - Wikipedia

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    Tjideng was a Japanese-run internment camp for women and children during World War II, in the former Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia).. The Japanese Empire began the invasion of the Dutch East Indies on 10 January 1942.

  8. Hiroshima Maidens - Wikipedia

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    The Maidens were also portrayed in the 1988 movie Hiroshima Maiden, which depicted a hibakusha woman staying with an American family. [49] In 1994, poet Daniel James Sundahl released a book titled Hiroshima Maidens: Imaginary Translations from the Japanese, which recounts the psychological impact the bombing of Hiroshima might have had on the ...

  9. Women in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War

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    Women in China supported injured soldiers in Communist and Nationalist bases alike, working as nurses, doctors, and midwives during the war. While women had worked as caregivers before, women during the war provided medical care in public, which marked a shift in gender roles.