Why We Must Listen to the Voices and Songs of the “Comfort Women” Survivors

The author – an ethnomusicologist – invites us to listen to “Comfort Women” survivors’ songs as a way to understand their lives and to remember them.

• 2025-09-25
• Joshua D. Pilzer

“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.

• 2025-08-05
• 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...

• 2025-02-24
• Liu Guangjian (刘广建)

What a Former Japanese Soldier Who Served as the Recreation Section Chief Saw and Failed to Say

Aya Furuhashi sheds light on the unspoken truths that emerge from the gaps between the lines of...

• 2024-10-29
• Aya Furuhashi (古橋綾)

The voices that rolled inside bodies – Emily Jungmin Yoon’s collection of poems A Cruelty Special to Our Species

Similar to what the researchers considered in the fourth collection of testimonies, the line placeme...

• 2021-12-17
• Lee Hye-ryoung