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Never forget sexual slavery as part of Japan’s WWII history

by Mike Honda, Lillian Sing and Julie Tang June 1, 2020June 1, 2020

“Comfort women” is a euphemistic term for the hundreds of thousands of girls and women who were kidnapped and sexually enslaved by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. From 1931-1945, Japanese military forced young women from more than 13 countries into sexual slavery for the “comfort” of its soldiers.  For the first time, […]

Posted inAT Finance, Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Middle East, Northeast Asia, Oceania, Philippines, South Asia, South Korea, World

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