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Bookmark or Share- Comfort women | Definition, History, & Facts | BritannicaComfort women, a euphemism for women who provided sexual services to Japanese Imperial Army troops from 1932 to 1945 and who generally lived under conditions of sexual slavery. Estimates of the number of women involved typically range up to 200,000, but the actual number may have been even higher.
- Japan ordered to compensate wartime 'comfort women' - BBC23 November 2023. By Lou Newton,BBC News. Getty Images. Lee Yong-soo leaves the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul on April 21, 2021. A South Korean court has ordered Japan to compensate a group...
- The Brutal History of Japan’s ‘Comfort Women’The Brutal History of Japan’s ‘Comfort Women’. Between 1932 and 1945, Japan forced women from Korea, China and other occupied countries to become military sex slaves. By: Erin Blakemore.
- Life as a "comfort woman": Survivors remember a WWII atrocity that was ...Life as a "comfort woman": Survivors remember a WWII atrocity that was ignored for decades. By Max Fisher max@vox.com Dec 29, 2015, 10:00am EST. A Korean survivor of wartime Japanese sexual ...
- Comfort women - WikipediaLocation. Asia. Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in occupied countries and territories before and during World War II. [2] [3] [4] [5] The term "comfort women" is a translation of the Japanese ianfu (慰安婦), [6] which literally means "comforting, consoling woman". [7]
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