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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 troops; however, the majority of the women were from Korea. [8]
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).
During World War II, some second generation Japanese-American women, who were known as Nisei women, joined the United States military as translators and linguists.The U.S. military recruited these women from both the public and from Japanese internment camps across the United States, especially from Hawaii.
Yoko Moriwaki (森脇 瑤子, Moriwaki Yōko; 7 June 1932 – 6 August 1945) was a thirteen-year-old Japanese schoolgirl who lived in Hiroshima during World War II. [1] Her diary, a record of wartime Japan before the bombing of Hiroshima, was published in Japan in 1996. It was published by HarperCollins in English in 2013 as Yoko's Diary. [2]
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.
Most women in China were profoundly impacted by the Second Sino-Japanese War (also referred to in China as the War of Resistance), in which the Empire of Japan fought the Republic of China from 1937 to 1945. Women's experiences during the war depended on a variety of factors, including class, place of origin, and social connections.
Women, called comfort women, were forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army before and during World War II. [47] In other words, the comfort women were a part of a systematic rape used by Japan, especially among the armed forces in the Second World War. [ 47 ]
The Maidens were also portrayed in the 1988 movie Hiroshima Maiden, which depicted a hibakusha woman staying with an American family. [48] 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 ...