Comfort women
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Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in occupied countries and territories before and during World War II. The term comfort women is a tr
Korean comfort women being questioned by the United States Army after the Siege of Myitkyina, August 14, 1944
A Japanese military comfort station in China, photographed on February 7, 1938
An ethnic Chinese comfort woman being interviewed by a flying officer of the Royal Air Force at Rangoon, August 8, 1945
Chinese and Malayan girls forcibly taken from Penang by the Japanese to work as 'comfort girls' for the troops
Gil Won-ok
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Gil Won-ok, also known as Grandma Gil, was a Korean activist who was forced into becoming a comfort woman during World War II. She dedicated her life to demanding redress and an official apology from
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…Yoon, on eight charges including fraud, embezzlement and breach of trust. Among the charges, Yoon was indicted for is a count of quasi-fraud against Gil Won-ok, a 92-year-old survivor. The prosecution said Gil has dementia and that Yoon had exploited her reduced physical and mental capacities and pressed her…
Gil protesting in front of the Japanese embassy in Korea in August 2011