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This is a list of people who were compelled into becoming prostitutes for the Japanese Imperial Army as "comfort women" during World War II. [1] Several decades after the end of the war, a number of former comfort women demanded formal apologies and a compensation from the Government of Japan, with varying levels of success. [2]
Historical Marker, Plaza Lawton, Liwasang Bonifacio, Manila Bahay na Pula in San Ildefonso, Bulacan used as barracks by Japanese soldiers in World War II where young Filipino comfort women were imprisoned and used as sex slaves. Comfort women in the Philippines, called "Lolas" (grandmothers), formed different groups similar to the Korean survivors.
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.
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). [76] [77] Ianfu is a euphemism for shōfu (娼婦) whose meaning is ...
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 ...
The legacy of Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean peninsula remains politically sensitive for both sides, with many surviving "comfort women" - a Japanese euphemism for the sex abuse ...
Kakou Senda (千田 夏光, Senda Kakō, August 28, 1924 – December 22, 2000) was a Japanese writer who is known for writing one of the first books on comfort women in Japan. Born in Dalian , Kwantung Leased Territory (then part of the Empire of Japan ) he wrote Military Comfort Women ( 従軍慰安婦 , Jūgun-ianfu ) in 1973.
The agreement stated that both governments would refrain from criticizing or accusing the other in the international community over the topic concerning comfort women. Under the agreement, Japan took responsibility for the issue of comfort women, but South Korean activists claimed the apology was vague and did not explicitly state that Japan ...