Meeting the first-generation researcher, to remember the first step - (2) Song Yeon-ok

She is an Emeritus Professor of Aoyama Gakuin University. As a Korean in Japan (a Zainichi Korean) and a researcher who laid the foundation for the studies of colonial history and women's history in Japan, she has been playing an important role in investigating the truth about the ‘Comfort Women’ issue. Her main publications include 『Military and Sexual Violence』, 『A Study on the East Asia Japanese military sexual slavery (co-authorship)』, 『A Study of 70 Years of Women's History in Korea (co-authorship)』, 『Colonialism, War, ‘Comfort Women’ for the Military (co-authorship)』, 『War and Social Affairs in East Asia(co-authorship)』, and so on.

• 2019-03-16
• Editorial Team of Webzine <Kyeol>

The story of Song Shin-do – “We have not the slightest idea of what a person thinks inside.”

This article is about the story of Song Shin-do remembered by Kawata Fumiko, who connected Song Shin-do to the ‘”Comfort Women” 110 Report Call Executive Committee’.

• 2020-09-14
• Kawata Fumiko (川田文子)

The rooms of the surviving “Comfort Women” – Songnisan Lee Ok-sun's room

Songnisan Grandmother had anticipated that she would live in Songnisan for the rest of her life but ended up coming to the &lt;House of Sharing&gt; in the fall of 2018 after having knee surgery which made it difficult for her to easily move around.

• 2020-10-07
• Kim Dae-wol

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

Tell us the stories of the “comfort women” issue through music

How can we remember the issue of Japanese military “comfort women”? Talking about an issue involves the processes of embracing it as one's own, facing it, and contemplating on it. In December 2019, a compilation album [Tell the Story - The Third Compilation of Songs] commemorating the Japanese military “comfort women” victims was released with the participation of about 30 musicians.

• 2020-05-14
• Earkey Project (The <Tell the Story> Project)