Comfort women

Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery. These women, mostly Korean and Chinese, were forced by the Imperial Japanese Army in occupied territories before and during World War II. There are different estimates of how many comfort women there were. Most researchers say there were probably around 50,000 to 200,000 comfort women. One source says the number of comfort women was closer to 20,000http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/31_S4.pdf Hata Ikuhiko 2007 while another says there were as many as 410,000.

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Category:Military of Japan
Category:World War II
Category:Prostitution