Japanese military sex slave women

Japan forced tens of thousands of Korean women to be sex slaves in World War II. of the horrors she would experience as a sex slave for Japanese troops. Some say the Japanese government has long denied justice to comfort becoming a sex slave for the Japanese military during World War II. Between and , Japan forced women from Korea, China and other occupied countries to become military sex slaves.

Comfort women or comfort girls were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army in occupied countries and territories before and during World War II. The name "comfort women" is a translation of the Japanese ianfu (慰安婦), a euphemism for "prostitutes".. Estimates vary as to how many women were involved, with most historians settling . Interviews with US Congressman, former Japanese wartime military sex slaves, Japanese right wing extremist and human rights activist on Japan's denial of res. Several Japanese military officers were convicted for having forced the 35 Dutch women involved in the case into comfort stations. File photo shows women who were forced to serve as sex slaves for Japanese troops being transported to a Japanese military camp. The issue began to emerge in Korea only in the late s.

WWII Women:Some History Photos of WWII Women Slavery and Humility. ‘Comfort woman’ is a translation of the Japanese euphemism, jugun ianfu, (military comfort women), referring to women of various ethnic and national backgrounds and social circumstances who became sex slaves for the Japanese troops before and during World War Two. At that young age, she was one of the Filipino comfort women treated as sex slaves by the Japanese military. Weeping, Lola Narcisa’s past wounds reopened as she narrated how the Japanese soldiers tortured her father before her very eyes in “I remember I was 11 years old that time. The Japanese military would take women from the areas they were currently occupying, namely Korea, China, and the Philippines. The military would entice them with jobs like nursing the Japanese Imperial Army, cooking, and laundry service. But in reality, most of the women brought in were forced into sexual services. They became sex slaves who.

Military brothels existed across the Asia Pacific region in areas occupied by the Japanese forces. There is no way to determine precisely how many women were forced to serve as comfort women, but estimates range from 80, to ,, of whom about 80 per cent of whom are thought to have been Korean. Some of the girls forced into sexual slavery were as young as 12 years old, according to Chinese legal groups. Japanese women and women of other occupied territories such as Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Burma and the Pacific islands were also used as comfort women, according to a report by San Francisco State University. The authorities believed the comfort system would enhance the morale of the military and help prevent soldiers from committing sexual violence toward women of occupied territories, which became a real concern after the infamous Nanjing Massacre in