Comfort women

Comfort Women in World War II The term “comfort women,” is a controversial term that refers to the estimated 200,000 women who were recruited by force or deception into performing sexual services to Japanese Imperial Army troops during World War II. Under the control of the Japanese military, about 80 percent of these young women came from Korea, but women from China, the Philippines,Taiwan,Indonesia, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, East Timor, India, Guam and the Netherlands were also victims

The comfort women issue has been an ongoing dispute for more than seventy years now. The role of comfort women in WWII was to raise the morale of soldiers by providing services. It is estimated that less than a quarter of the comfort women survived the ordeal, however the exact number is not recorded. Since then, Japan has decided to remain silent in order to avoid any conflicts or issues. The comfort women issue didn’t become acknowledged until the 1990s when comfort women started to testify in

Japanese Comfort Women It is estimated that between one and two hundred thousand female sex slaves were forced to deliver sexual services to Japanese soldiers, both before and during World War II. These women were known as comfort women and the Imperial Conference, which was composed of the emperor, representatives from the armed forces and the main Cabinet ministers, approved their use by Japanese soldiers. (Walkom) The term "comfort women" refers to the victims of a "premeditated systematic plan

barely spoken of: comfort women. Comfort women were girls and women from Japanese territories coerce into sex slavery for the Japanese military. The idea behind it was to prevent rape and to reduce sexually transmitted diseases in the army; however, this came at the expense of innocent women and girls. Women and girls were tricked or kidnapped to be raped. They were forced into horrific living condition. While the living conditions were horrible, the scars

Violence against women during times of war is something that is very rarely discussed, especially the violence that was directed towards Vietnamese women during the Vietnam War. Even now there is discourse surrounding these Vietnamese women, or “comfort women” as they are called. Today there is very little officially known about what took place, and what happened to these women. The women were stolen from their homes, violated, assaulted, and blamed as victims. Their children were discriminated against

Comfort women, or ianfu as they are called in Korean, are females who were forced sex slaves for the Japanese Imperial Army (Chunghee). Some of the women were dragged off with physical force as their families wept, while others were actually sold to the army by their destitute families (Watanabe). Still other were officially drafted by the Japanese Imperial Army and believed they would be factory workers or nurses (Hwang in Schellstede 4). Some Korean village leaders were ordered to send young women

Those comfort women had to serve more than 40 men every day. If they could not meet the minimum, they got brutal punishment and sometimes died. As stated by Tanaka in her book, “The Japanese military plan devised in July 1941, 20,000 comfort women were required for every 700,000 Japanese soldiers, or 1 woman for every 35 soldiers daily” (Tanaka 99). Japanese soldiers targeted the age between 13 to 18 years old young girls, and dragged them to their bases. Therefore, young girls in Korea during the

Comfort Women and Comfort Stations, Avoided History During World War two and the Pacific War, the Japanese army was bouncing back from the Raping of Nanking. The Imperial Army was shamed for the bluntness of its killing and raping of several hundreds of thousands of women. “The army that's rapes and pillages together stays together”-Alison Bernier. So it was not a surprise that the army was back at it with ‘comfort women’ during World War Two. This essay discusses the history of comfort stations

woman for comfort stations. It is important to first understand that in no document of the very few found on the recruitment of women to comfort stations was there any mention of women consenting to either recruitment or what they were required to do once in the stations. This is important when reflecting on the social situations in which victims encountered post-war. The recruitment of comfort women is used by many “anti-apologists”, people who think Japanese responsibility for comfort stations

Comfort Women and the Japanese Denial of Forced Prostitution During the time of the Japanese Empire, when Japan had taken control of Korea and was attempting to expand its territory further, the Japanese military utilized sex slaves and prostitutes called “comfort women” in order to boost morale and prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. However, after World War II, these comfort women all but vanished from Japanese history, only to reemerge in a large movement in the 1990s demanding