Statue of Peace
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The Statue of Peace, often shortened to Sonyeosang in Korean or Shōjo-zō in Japanese and sometimes called the Comfort Woman Statue, is a symbol of the women forced into sexual slavery—known euphemisti
Statue of Peace from behind, facing the Embassy of Japan
Statue of Peace in Melbourne, Australia
Statue of Peace in Berlin, Germany
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
Statue of Peace
…of girl") and sometimes called the Comfort Woman Statue (慰安婦像, Ianfu-zō), is a symbol of the women forced into sexual slavery—known euphemistically as comfort women—by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces before and during World War II—specifically, the period from the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War until…
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