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Sex Slaves, or also            known as "Comfort Women"   

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Sex Slaves, or also            known as "Comfort Women"   

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The term "Comfort Women" was used by the Japanese Imperial Army during the Second World War. During Japan's move towards the neighboring countries that included Korea, Taiwan, China, and the Philippines, they made sure that everything and everyone can be used to boost their military power. History suggests that women and children were not as useful as men do, but Japan had something in mind. Comfort women were ranged between the ages 18 to 25, the youngest known comfort women that is now an activist, Lee Yong-soo was forced to be a sex slave at age 16. She protested against the US and Japan about how comfort women were not viewed as a huge issue, some survivors of WW2 is still scarred from the horrific events that took place and the abuse, torture, rape and beatings that they had to endure.
The picture below is showing women being shipped off of the harbors of South Korea.

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What's it like to live as a comfort women?

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What's it like to live as a comfort women?

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Sex slaves during the second world war were mostly women, thus the term comfort women was used. When we talk about  WW2 we think of guns, machines, D-Day, Hitler, and the Nazis, but rarely do we talk about the slaves who were involved in the conflict. A 92-year old Korean comfort women survivor Kim-Bok Dong did an interview last year about her experience as a sex slave for the Japanese Imperial Army. She retells her story about being forced to work in a factory to make clothes for the army, and while she was working there, that's when Japanese soldiers took advantage of her and raped her. She would continue living in this kind of situation until the end of the war. Her experience with what took place against her has left a huge hole in her soul and it hasn't changed since.

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Life As A “Comfort Woman”: Story of Kim Bok-Dong | STAY CURIOUS #9

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How did the Japanese Imperial Army do these such war crimes procedures without alerting the public/world?

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How did the Japanese Imperial Army do these such war crimes procedures without alerting the public/world?

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Japan teamed up with the Axis powers during the second world war, but both Germany and Italy did not coordinate each others activities, meaning that each countries worked separately. With Germany busy expanding through Europe with Italy, Japan is busy ruling the Pacific and expanding its influence in neighboring countries, mainly Korea and the Philippines. And with every country busy with their war efforts and fixing problems within their country, Japan was able to get away from it. After the war, the Allied forces won the war and with the defeat of Germany and Japan, that signaled the end of the war, which means slaves and workers are free or are sent back home. Japan used this as an advantage to give their soldiers freedom to have comfort while risking their lives fighting for their country and honor.But they never thought of the lives of these women that they took advantage of, raped, harassed, exploited, killed and robbed. A quote on this short clip made me cry.
"They might've killed my body, but not my spirit".

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"Herstory" Comfort Women Animation - English

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Why is the world still ignoring these horrific events that occurred since WW2?

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Why is the world still ignoring these horrific events that occurred since WW2?

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Today's world is surrounded by the internet, and the media is playing a big part of this issue. After WW2 the world is celebrating the victory of the Allies against the Axis, in which it overshadowed the fact that those who got affected by the Japanese Imperial Army never received a proper 'sorry' from Japan's government. People around the world had easily forgotten the negative effects that caused WW2 to some countries because of the media, they keep showing positive results to the people and twists the story for fame and fortune. The world is blinded by this globalization and influence of the western world, the media shows a way to forget about the past and make new things to entertain the audience, this is somewhat beneficial towards us, but they have kept the truth away from the world to know about and it made it for some people hard to forget as they are still seeking for a proper end into this issue.

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South Korea's population is probably the most affected by Japan's actions towards women during WW2. In 2015, South Korea has showed honor and respect to those women who were affected by the actions made by the Japanese Imperial Army by scattering statues of the victims around city parks, benches, trains, buses and in public places. The Philippines has a small group of WW2 survivors who were comfort women and has publicly asked an apology from the Japanese government, but reports have stated that Japan has refused to give an apology to what has happened in the past. To this day, the controversy of Japan refusing to give an apology to those victims are still being noticed.
A song best describes this situation is found here...

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BEAUTIFUL SLAVE Song About Child Slavery And Human Trafficking TAKE NO GLORY

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Japan has denied the accusations for over 70 years since WW2 ended, but Japan has proposed an apology to Korean victims since 2012. There are no sources that I could find whether Korea has accepted it or not. But tensions between Tokyo and Seoul escalates due to this issue as of today.

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Sources that I used to help me finish this project

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Sources that I used to help me finish this project

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https://www.newsweek.com/world-war-ii-mass-grave-comfort-women-documented-horrifying-video-discovered-823564
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/13/national/politics-diplomacy/demand-comfort-women-apology-emperor-angered-many-japan-abe-says-u-s-seeks-calm/#.XhaIzoNKjIU
~The Japan Times
~Nichie Bei Weekly
~CNN
~BBC

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Lee Ok-seon was running an errand for her parents when it happened: a group of uniformed men burst out of a car, attacked her and dragged her into the vehicle. As they drove away, she had no idea that she would never see her parents again.

She was 14 years old.

That fateful afternoon, Lee's life in Busan, a town in what is now South Korea, ended for good. The teenager was taken to a so-called "comfort station"-a brothel that serviced Japanese soldiers-in Japanese-occupied China. There, she became one of the tens of thousands of "comfort women" subjected to forced prostitution by the imperial Japanese army between 1932 and 1945.

It's been nearly a century since the first women were forced into sexual slavery for imperial Japan, but the details of their servitude remains painful and politically divisive in Japan and the countries it once occupied. Records of the women's subjugation is scant; there are very few survivors and an estimated 90 percent of "comfort women" did not survive the war.

Though military brothels existed in the Japanese military since 1932, they expanded widely after one of the most infamous incidents in imperial Japan's attempt to take over the Republic of China and a broad swath of Asia: the Rape of Nanking. On December 13, 1937, Japanese troops began a six-week-long massacre that essentially destroyed the Chinese city of Nanking. Along the way, Japanese troops raped between 20,000 and 80,000 Chinese women.

The mass rapes horrified the world, and Emperor Hirohito was concerned with its impact on Japan's image. As legal historian Carmen M. Agibay notes, he ordered the military to expand its so-called "comfort stations," or military brothels, in an effort to prevent further atrocities, reduce sexually transmitted diseases and ensure a steady and isolated group of prostitutes to satisfy Japanese soldiers' sexual appetites.
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"Recruiting" women for the brothels amounted to kidnapping or coercing them. Women were rounded up on the streets of Japanese-occupied territories, convinced to travel to what they thought were nursing units or jobs, or purchased from their parents as indentured servants. These women came from all over southeast Asia, but the majority were Korean or Chinese.

Once they were at the brothels, the women were forced to have sex with their captors under brutal, inhumane conditions. Though each woman's experience was different, their testimonies share many similarities: repeated rapes that increased before battles, agonizing physical pain, pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases and bleak conditions.

"It was not a place for humans," Lee told Deutsche Welle in 2013. Like other women, she was threatened and beaten by her captors. "There was no rest," recalled Maria Rosa Henson, a Filipina woman who was forced into prostitution in 1943. "They had sex with me every minute."

The end of World War II did not end military brothels in Japan. In 2007, Associated Press reporters discovered that the United States authorities allowed "comfort stations" to operate well past the end of the war and that tens of thousands of women in the brothels had sex with American men until Douglas MacArthur shut the system down in 1946.

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By then, between 20,000 and 410,000 women had been enslaved in at least 125 brothels. In 1993, the UN's Global Tribunal on Violations of Women's Human Rights estimated that at the end of World War II, 90 percent of the "comfort women" had died.

After the end of World War II, however, documents on the system were destroyed by Japanese officials, so the numbers are based on estimates by historians that rely on a variety of extant documents. As Japan rebuilt after World War II, the story of its enslavement of women was downplayed as a distasteful remnant of a past people would rather forget.

Meanwhile, women who had been forced into sexual slavery became societal outcasts. Many died of sexually transmitted infections or complications from their violent treatment at the hands of Japanese soldiers; others committed suicide.

For decades, the history of the "comfort women" went undocumented and unnoticed. When the issue was discussed in Japan, it was denied by officials who insisted that "comfort stations" had never existed.

Then, in the 1980s, some women began to share their stories. In 1987, after the Republic of South Korea became a liberal democracy, women started discussing their ordeals publicly. In 1990, the issue flared into an international dispute when South Korea criticized a Japanese official's denial of the events.

In the years that followed, more and more women came forward to give testimony. In 1993, Japan's government finally acknowledged the atrocities. Since then, however, the issue has remained divisive. The Japanese government finally announced it would give reparations to surviving Korean "comfort women" in 2015, but after a review, South Korea asked for a stronger apology. Japan recently condemned that request-a reminder that the issue remains as much a matter of present foreign relations as past history.

Meanwhile, a few dozen women forced into sexual slavery by Japan are still alive. One of them is Yong Soo Lee, a 90-year-old survivor who has been vocal about her desire to receive an apology from the Japanese government. "I never wanted to give comfort to those men," she told the Washington Post in 2015. "I don't want to hate or hold a grudge, but I can never forgive what happened to me."

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The Brutal History of Japan's 'Comfort Women'

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Lee Ok-seon was running an errand for her parents when it happened: a group of uniformed men burst out of a car, attacked her and dragged her into the vehicle. As they drove away, she had no idea that she would never see her parents again. She was 14 years old.

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History repeats itself, slavery has been on our footprints since, and this is due to globalization taking its place in society. Most people view Japan as the victim, some might view them as the villain, but in reality ALL of us are the victims, we as civilized humans keep pointing fingers to each other when we exploit and take advantage of what we truly are. The world has lost its common sense and leaning on violence once again. I hope the world can open their eyes and see the reality.
Imagine a world where racism, world hunger, global warming, wars, poverty, violence, hatred and other bad things that's in this world we live in never existed. "What a wonderful Dream of a world"