年 全体 中国 朝鮮・満州 内地 南方 航空・船舶 1936年 29万 - - - - - 1937年 95万 50万 21万 23万 - - 1938年 113万 68万 23万 21万 - - 1939年 124万 70万 29万 24万 - - 1940年 135万 68万 35万 32万 - - 1941年 185万 68万 80万 37万 - - 1942年 210万 …

浙かん作戦 参加兵団：（第11軍）第3師団（幸）、第34師団（椿）ほか （第13軍）第116師団（嵐）、第15師団（祭）、第22師団（原）、第70師団（槍）、第32師団（楓）ほか 軍戦闘指令所：（第11軍）南昌、（第13軍）杭州など 作戦期間：1942年5月〜9月 作戦地…

Q.What does Japan s history class teach about comfort women? A.Japan’ history textbooks are selected and authorized by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology out of textbook plans submitted by publishers. Schools ch…

Q.What does the letter of apology for comfort women from the Japanese Prime minister say? A.The Japanese government acknowledged the Japanese army was directly or indirectly involved in recruiting comfort women in Kono Statement. In 1995, …

Q.How has Japan’ Diet handled the issue of comfort women? A.In April, 1998, the Shimonoseki district court in Japan ruled, in a trial filed by three former comfort women, that the Japanese government was liable to compensate the victims be…

Q.How was the International Society’ Response to the comfort women Issue? A.International organizations recognized the gravity of the issue and recommended the Japanese government to take active measures to resolve the problem. In 1994, th…

Q.What is the 1993 Kono Statement? A.In response to the request to investigate the comfort women issue by a politician from an opposition party in the Budget committee of the House of Councilors in July 1990, the Director of the labor Depa…

Q.What is Wednesday Demonstration? A.Since Haksun Kim, first testified to her past as a comfort woman, many victims have reported their sufferings. The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan held the firs…

Q.How did the issue of comfort women become known to the world? A.deported as an illegal alien. When her nationality was verified, she said that she was taken from Korea as “comfort woman.”In 1975, she received an official permission to st…

Q.What is the after-war damage to comfort women ? A.The research team led by SungKil Min, M.D., Ph.D. at Yonsei University presented a thesis titled, ‘sychiatric Sequela of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery in Wartime in Former comfort Wome…

Q.What happened to military sex slaves after the war ended? A.The World War II ended as the then Japanese emperor Hirohito announced on August 15,1945 that Japan would accept the Potsdam Declaration without any condition. The military sex …

Q.What is the total number of forcibly recruited comfort women? A.Comfort women could be found in every Japanese military camp. However, it is impossible to confirm the exact number of them because the Japanese military destroyed related d…

Q.How were the lives of military sex slaves in comfort stations? A.Girls and women were deceptively recruited, often with the involvement by the police and governmental officials, sometimes tricked or kidnapped and deployed to “comfort sta…

Q.Is there any evidence that can prove there was coercion of recruitment for comfort women? A.As mentioned in the previous testimony, “comfort women”were forcefully recruited by Japanese troops and officials. Kinbara, a medical officer of …

Q.How were the comfort women taken into sex slavery for the military? A.Girls and women were deceptively recruited, often with the involvement by the police and governmental officials, sometimes tricked or kidnapped and deployed to “comfor…

Q.What are comfort stations(military brothels) for? A.During the Japanese aggression over China, the soldiers frequently raped local women and provoked strong back lash from local people. Furthermore, the Japanese military suffered loss of…

Q.What is comfort women for the Japanese military? A.The term “comfort women”is a euphemism for the young women who were forcefully recruited from old colonies (i.e. Korea and Taiwan) and occupied countries (i.e. China, the Philippines, an…