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“Comfort Girls”: The Forgotten Tragedy of Child Exploitation

The “Comfort Women” system was not only a violation of women’s rights, but also a grave infringement of children’s rights. In this article, Professor Ñusta Carranza Ko examines how imperial Japanese authorities systematically violated the rights of underage girls, in direct contravention of international conventions of the time, reframing the issue as a case of child rights violations.

Ñusta Carranza Ko

Images of “Comfort Women” Survivors at the Time of Their Rescue by Allied Force, as Seen in a Chinese Magazine

A report on the “Comfort Women” survivors rescued by the Allied Forces, as featured in the Chinese m...

Liu Guangjian (刘广建)

[사진 3] 청팍옌 박사 가족이 소유했던 자란 주롱 케칠의 상가 건물은 일부가 과거 위안소로 사용되었다는 이유로 처음으로 보존 대상으로 선정됐다. (사진 제공:케빈 블랙번)

Characteristics of the Issue of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery in Singapore

Until 2022, when the book The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory was published, it was...

Kevin Blackburn

How did Japan set up the “comfort stations” in Hainan Island (海南島) and mobilize “comfort women”?

The right-wingers in Japan deny any direct involvement of the Japanese government, citing that the d...

Choi Jong-gil

Confidential Documents of Thailand’s Supreme Command - the Japanese Military “Comfort Stations” existed in Thailand

Patporn Phoothong

얀 루프-오헤른 Jan Ruff-O' Herne, 『나는 일본군 성노예였다: 네덜란드 여성이 증언하는 일본군 ‘위안소’』 (삼천리, 2018)

I was a sex slave for the Japanese Army: The Japanese Army's 'comfort stations' testified by a Dutch woman

Written by Choi Jae-in (The translator of 『Fifty Years of Silence』 by Jan Ruff O'Herne)

Choi Jae-in

Thoughts on the issue of sexual violence of the Japanese military in China <Part 1> - Issues raised by the ‘comfort woman’ victims of the Japanese military in China

Issues raised by the ‘comfort woman’ victims of the Japanese military in China.

Lee Sun-yi

Thoughts on the issue of the sexual violence of the Japanese military in China <Part 3> - ‘Comfort women’ of the Japanese military in China: Who can ask for forgiveness and reconciliation?

Written by Lee Sun-yi, a research professor at KyungHee University Institute of Humanities

Lee Sun-yi