Comfort Women Testimonies

Her father was a korean and her mother was a japanese.

Comfort women testimonies. Testimony i kimiko kaneda south korea kimiko kaneda was born in tokyo on 22 october 1921. Here are the testimonies of some of the former comfort women. I had one younger brother and one younger sister.

A documentary about the making of comfort women will be showing at the artivist film festival in. Though each woman s experience was different their testimonies share many similarities. Testimonies from japan s imperial sex slaves features the personal narratives of twelve women forced into sexual slavery when the japanese military occupied their hometowns.

3 chung seo woon p 7 ahn jeomsun p 9 gang dok gyung p 20 kim bok dong p 30 bark young sim p 32 yun tu ri p 34 hah sang suk i was born in sosan south chungchung province in 1928. As the military expanded its territory they turned to enslaved women in the occupied areas. Comfort women testimonies admin february 21 2018 philippine foreign secretary alan peter cayetano in a recent press release expressed concern over the same igniting matter that continually seems to resurface for many generations now involving the japanese use of comfort women during the world war two occupation.

1 song shindo p. What follows then are testimonies of korean women who survived japan s system of mass sexual slavery excerpted from a 1996 united nations report on comfort women these are i believe. Many comfort women lived a similar life after the brothels keeping to themselves and keeping quiet about the horrors they experienced mostly out of fear of being labeled an outcast.

The story of the comfort women according to reports the japanese military began with volunteer prostitutes in occupied parts of china around 1931. The comfort stations were set up near military camps as a way to keep the troops occupied. Comfort stations institutionalized rape and these comfort women were subjected to atrocities that have only recently become the subject of international debate.

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