Comfort Women Philippines

Hideko ito of japan s diet on march 10 1992.

Comfort women philippines. An estimated 1 000 filipino women served as comfort women during the 1941 1945 occupation. Most of the women were from occupied countries including korea china and the philippines. One day while selling food in.

Contrary to what most japanese history books say comfort women are not prostitutes. The national historical commission of the philippines on december 8 unveiled the 2 meter high bronze statue. Estellita a frail and softly spoken 86 year old great grandmother grew up on a prosperous sugar plantation in the central philippines.

It followed the erection of similar statues in south korea china and australia. Such victims can be thought of as equivalent to comfort women. The filipino comfort women or lolas under lila pilipina an organization of world war ii comfort women brought their longstanding battlecry to the streets of manila to mark the international day to commemorate victims of japanese wartime miltary sexual slavery.

Also in parts of the philippines occupied by the japanese military according to victims testimonies a number of women were raped and abducted through violent means to garrison buildings then confined there and forced to provide sexual services. Maria rosa luna henson was the first filipino to tell her story as a sex slave on sept. They are sisters wives daughters mothers and homemakers that were taken by force from their homes.

In the philippines it is estimated that 1 000 women were forcibly seized by japanese soldiers to serve as comfort women. Recently a manila statue commemorating filipino comfort women has been overwhelmed by a debate. Yet philippine japanese relations are strong enough to endure the weight of history especially in the year 2018 which is internationally being promoted as the year of the woman in early decembe.

Women were used for military comfort stations in burma thailand vietnam malaya manchukuo taiwan then a japanese dependency the dutch east indies portuguese timor new guinea and other japanese occupied territories. She wanted to be a teacher.