num_pages: 116
description: In April 1943, fifteen-year-old Maria Rosa Henson was taken by Japanese soldiers occupying the Philippines and forced into prostitution as a comfort woman. In this simply told yet powerfully moving autobiography, Rosa recalls her childhood as the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy landowner, her work for Huk guerillas, her wartime ordeal, and her marriage to a rebel leader who left her to raise their children alone. Her triumph against all odds is embodied by her decision to go public with the secret she had held for fifty years.
language: English
title: Comfort Woman CB
titlecomplete: Comfort Woman CB
genres: War, Asia, Japan, Nonfiction, Memoir, Autobiography, Asian Literature, Biography Memoir, History, World War II
ratings_count: 331
places: The Philippines
publisher: Rowman & Littlefield