The “comfort women” system was established by the Japanese Imperial Army before and during World War II. Under this infamous ... to serve their troops as sex slaves. Looking back on the ...
It commemorates the Filipino “comfort women”, who were forced to work as sexual slave labor in Japanese military brothels during World War II. Soon thereafter, a spokeswoman from Japan’s ...
mental stress on the victims by displaying distorted claims about those forced into sex slavery." Surviving women had reacted angrily to Ms Park's 2013 book The Comfort Women of the Empire.
To Germany's Korean diaspora — 50,000 strong — the statue is a poignant tribute to the 200,000 so-called comfort ... slavery by the Imperial Japanese military during World War II.