After the war, Japan's acknowledgment of the comfort women's plight was minimal, lacking a full apology and appropriate restitution, which damaged Japan's reputation in Asia for decades.Įstimates vary as to how many women were involved, with most historians settling somewhere in the range of 50,000–200,000 the exact numbers are still being researched and debated. Many women died or committed suicide due to brutal mistreatment and sustained physical and emotional distress. During World War II, Japanese troops forced hundreds of thousands of women from Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, China, and other countries into brothels where they were sexually enslaved and repeatedly raped. The term "comfort women" is a translation of the Japanese ianfu (慰安婦), which literally means "comforting, consoling woman". Sexual slavery in the Imperial Japanese ArmyĬomfort women or comfort girls were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army in occupied countries and territories before and during World War II. Comfort women from Korea being questioned by the US army after the Siege of Myitkyina in Burma, on August 14, 1944.
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