Chinese Comfort Women
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Chinese comfort women. The teenager was taken to a so called comfort station a brothel that serviced japanese soldiers in japanese occupied china. The expansion of more comfort stations for these reasons was carried out after the horrific rape of nanking that took place during the second sino japanese war in 1937 when the japanese military raped around 20 000 women. Chinese comfort women provides a fascinating look into the comfort houses and sex slaves of imperial japan.
Julie and lilian are co founders of the comfort women justice coalition. There she became one of the tens of thousands of comfort women. Subscribe for more from the itv news team.
Estimates vary as to how many women were involved with numbers. The system of abuse escalated after the 1937 nanking massacre in the chinese city now known as. A chinese comfort woman tells itv news the tale of the brutality she endured at the hands of japanese invaders during wwii.
Comfort women were mainly women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the imperial japanese army in occupied countries and territories before and during world war ii and the earlier program of voluntary prostitution. Chinese comfort women adeline yen mah san francisco s superior court judge julie tang and judge lillian sing invited me last week to speak at the funeral of wei shao lan a chinese comfort woman who passed away in may 2019. Wikimedia commons chinese and malayan girls taken as comfort women for japanese troops.
As the military expanded its territory they turned to enslaved women in the occupied areas. The story of the comfort women according to reports the japanese military began with volunteer prostitutes in occupied parts of china around 1931. The comfort stations were set up near military camps as a way to keep the troops occupied.
The name comfort women is a translation of the japanese ianfu 慰安婦 a euphemism for prostitute s. Https bit ly 367zxfa sex slaves of the japanese army rare pictures of the comfort women world war ii pacific history. At least 200 000 chinese women were.