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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

Documenting Imperial Japanese Military’s Atrocities Against Women in China

While warfare continues inflicting damage and suffering in today’s world, and rape of women is still...

Peipei Qiu

The rooms of the surviving “Comfort Women” - Kang Il-chul’s room

What kind of everyday life do the surviving “Comfort Women” victims residing in the <House of Sha...

Kim Dae-wol

The Story of Bae Bong-gi – “We luckily managed to survive amid that war.”

In her book <The House with a Red Tile Roof - The Story of Korean Women Who Became the Japanese M...

Kawata Fumiko (川田文子)

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

U.S. Office of War Information Report No. 49: A report reflecting the author’s subjective bias

Byeongju Hwang is a research officer at the National Institute of Korean History, focusing on the modern transformation of Korea. He is currently responsible for the project on the war crimes of Japanese Military “Comfort Women” at the National Institute of Korean History.

Byeongju Hwang

SEATIC Interrogation Bulletin No. 2: The state of operation of comfort station through document

일본군 위안부 문제연구소 웹진 결

Byeongju Hwang

The most elementary data among the ‘comfort women’-related records of the Allied Forces

Hwang Byoung-joo The author's interest lies in the modern transformation of Korea and h...

Byeongju Hwang