Directory of Comfort Women Resources

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"Comfort Women" is a direct translation from the Japanese word jugun ianfu (in Korean jungun wianbu) which were Asian women forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial military in World War II.

Resources in This Category

• CNN - Japan's Former Comfort Women Demand Justice - Apr. 17, 1997

  http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9704/17/japan.comfort.women/
  Article on women who say they were taken by invading Japanese soldiers during World War II and made the sexual slaves of Japan's Imperial Army.

• Japan's Responsibility Toward Comfort Women Survivors

  http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp77.html
  Article from the Japan Policy research institute on former comfort women demands, Japanese and western responses, and fund for Asian victims.

• On the Issue of Wartime "Comfort Women"

  http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/postwar/issue9308.html
  Official government response from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1993 on comfort women, their background, and recruitment.

• The Comfort Women - A History of Trauma

  http://taiwan.yam.org.tw/womenweb/conf_women/index_e.html
  Gives historical perspective, origins, facts about exploitation, voices of comfort women, and current situation of Taiwanese victims.

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