Personal Stories Comfort Women

Still the comfort women are not just symbolic figures and this isn t just about present day politics.

Personal stories comfort women. Nearly 70 years after the surrender of japan she. Comfort women stories may be graphic but are necessary to fully understand the human rights violations that those women endured. As the military expanded its territory they turned to enslaved women in the occupied areas.

Oral histories of the comfort women kim tŏkchin i have much to say to the korean government i suddenly heard a korean. Reuters wed 12 aug 2015 16 15 pm. This is an excerpt from park statue politics.

Reuters photographer kim kyung hoon portrays surviving comfort women. For students who hear about today s wars and atrocities from the media an open and forthright discussion would be helpful to teach how to critically understand such events in both the past and the present. The story of the comfort women according to reports the japanese military began with volunteer prostitutes in occupied parts of china around 1931.

Former comfort woman tells uncomforting story lee ok seon spent three years in a japanese military brothel in china against her will during ww ii. True stories of the korean comfort women edited by keith howard and translated by young joo lee london. In the mid 1930s the government of japan established a government controlled network of brothels referred to as ianjo or comfort stations based on a massive japanese private prostitution network in place since the emergence of japan as a colonial power in.

The comfort stations were set up near military camps as a way to keep the troops occupied.