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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 used as an instrument of armed conflicts, it is critical to bring the narratives of the “Comfort Women” into public memory.

Peipei Qiu

A Story of Constant Struggle: The “Comfort Women” Issue in North Korea

Historian Harrison C. Kim traces how discourse on “Comfort Women” in North Korea has evolved—at times in dialogue with the outside world—while developing distinct advocacy practices and perspectives.

Cheehyung Harrison Kim

“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

[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 widely thought in Singapore that there were no Singaporean "Comfort Women" who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese military.

Kevin Blackburn

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

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 leads? the Webzine has arranged an essay series to look at daily life of those who live at the , centering upon the space of the “room.” The fourth protagonist is Kang Il-chul.

Kim Dae-wol

How Can Perpetrators Bear Responsibility?

Testimony and publishing activities concerning wartime sexual violence and “Comfort Women” carried out by the Association of Returnees from China (Chukiren), which atoned for their perpetrators’ actions in postwar Japanese society.

Kim Su-yong

Remembering Kim Hak-sun

Written by Lee Hee-ja, President of the Association for Requesting Compensation for the Pacific War Victims

Lee Hee-ja

Remembering Bae Bong-gi

she said, with tears streaming down her cheeks, when a Japanese journalist suggested they go back and visit her old home together. Away for so long from her hometown in South Chungcheong Province – a place which she could now only dream about.

Park-Kim Wooki (朴金優綺)

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 magazine “Da Zhan Hua Ji,” published just beforethe end of World War Ⅱ.

Liu Guangjian (刘广建)

Historical Memory