China Comfort Women

Estimates vary as to how many women were involved with numbers.

China comfort women. The teenager was taken to a so called comfort station a brothel that serviced japanese soldiers in japanese occupied china. When the end of the second world war is commemorated this year comfort women will count among the conflict s unsettled ghosts. At least 200 000 chinese women were.

As the military expanded its territory they turned to enslaved women in the occupied areas. There she became one of the tens of thousands of comfort women. The ft meets a former comfort woman in china who was forced into.

Two sisters in their 90s from central china have spoken out about being forced to become comfort women during the second world war mainland media reports. Chinese scholars estimate that another 200 000 chinese women were kidnapped in occupied cities or along the sprawling front. The name comfort women is a translation of the japanese ianfu 慰安婦 a euphemism for prostitute s.

Wikimedia commons chinese and malayan girls taken as comfort women for japanese troops. She was forcibly taken to a comfort station in yuxian county to serve as a sex slave for the japanese soldiers. There are fewer and fewer said bao xiaqin an expert on china japan relations at the city s fudan university.

Korean scholars put the number of asian comfort women at 200 000. The expansion of more comfort stations for these reasons was carried out after the horrific rape of nanking that took place during the second sino japanese war in 1937 when the japanese military raped around 20 000 women. Cao heimao who died at the age of 96 in july was the last of 127 chinese comfort women survivors who filed an unsuccessful suit against the japanese government for their sexual enslavement.

Mainstream historians agree that around 200 000 so called comfort women mostly.