![]() ![]() According to testimonies, some young women were abducted from their homes in countries under Imperial Japanese rule. Many women were coerced into working in the brothels. However, despite the goal of reducing rape and venereal disease, the comfort stations aggravated rape and increased the spread of venereal diseases. ![]() Originally, the brothels were established to provide soldiers with a sexual outlet in order to reduce the incidence of wartime rape, a cause of rising anti-Japanese sentiment across occupied territories. A smaller number of women of European origin were also involved, mostly from the Netherlands and Australia with an estimated 200–400 Dutch women alone, with an unknown number of other European women. Stations were located in Japan, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaya, Thailand, Burma, New Guinea, Hong Kong, Macau, and French Indochina. ![]() ![]() Women who were used for military "comfort stations" also came from Burma, Thailand, French Indochina, Malaya, Manchukuo, Taiwan (then a Japanese dependency), the Dutch East Indies, Portuguese Timor, Papua New Guinea (including some mixed race Japanese-Papuans ) and other Japanese-occupied territories. Most of the women were from occupied countries, including Korea, China, and the Philippines. 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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