Japanese comfort women
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Eve Ensler has launched an effort to get recompense for Asian womwn forced into prostitution by the Japanese government during WWII.
The Japanese government has refused to provide official compensation for the women, claiming postwar treaties dealt with the issue and Japanese courts have rejected several lawsuits brought by the former sex slaves known as “comfort women.”
Historians estimate 200,000 women, mostly from Korea and the Philippines but also from China, Indonesia and the Netherlands, were pressed into wartime prostitution for millions of Japanese soldiers stationed throughout Asia. Some were forced to sleep with up to 50 men a day.
Justice campaign launched for ‘comfort women’
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that is horrible! those poor women! they better get justice! noone should be forced into prostitution like that
Posted by: misc person | September 2, 2005 9:28 AM