Chinese and Malayan girls forcibly taken from Penang by the Japanese to work as 'comfort girls' for the troops 1939-1945

Chinese and Malayan girls forcibly taken from Penang by the Japanese to work as 'comfort girls' for the troops 1939-1945

A drop in the bucket compared to the countless atrocities Japan committed. Specificaly regarding rape, the Japanese enslaved as many as 200,000 Women as "comfort women' and has yet to even officially apologize to them. I remember reading the firsthand account of a Filipino comfort women where she was raped 10x a day.

My grandfather was younger than ilikedeadpeople's great-grandmother (still a kid), but also remembers the day the Imperial Japanese army captured his town (wasn't a fight, they just walked in). His "town leader" (for lack of a better word) was immediately publicly beheaded to show everyone else what would happen to them if they didn't fall in line. Several years later as the lJA was in retreat, my grandfather was staring at two Japanese soldiers.

One noticed my grandfather staring and aimed his rifle at him when the other nudged him as if to say "c'mon man, let it go". He considers himself very fortunate that he didn't experience bodily harm. Millions of others weren't so lucky.

It's crazy how everyone who as grandparents/ great-grandparents who grew up in East Asia

during WWIl has stories of Imperial Japan and a testament to their cruelty.

said: Chinese and Soviet atrocities during WWII were drops in the bucket compared to the near unfathomable amount of suffering inflicted by the Empire of Japan. And just as importantly, done in retaliation to the horrific crimes and devastation Japan and Germany committed to their homelands. China and the Soviet Union alone account for around 65% of loss of human life during the war. While their war crimes are still wrong, unless someone here knows what it's like to have your home burned down and most of your family slaughtered like animals; I wouldn't judge them too harshly. And the fact that you'd even attempt to shift blamé for WWIl in Asia away from Japan onto China is disgraceful.

Comfort women' is the term used by the Japanese government as PR to soften the truth of what they were

actually doing. These women (and very often children) were sex slaves and victims of torture. The acts against them constitute war crimes. Those are the terms we should use to talk about them.

Absolutely, the English term "comfort women" is a translation of the Japanese word ianfu', a euphemism

for 'prostitute". And the Japanese government still claims that they were "voluntary prostitutes" and

refuses to acknowledge that these women were forced into sexual slavery. They've also refused to pay the victim's claims for compensation, and erased mention of them from their school textbooks.

Which is still a ridiculous excuse, because even if these women were voluntary sex workers; they still did not deserve to suffer the barbaric and horrific acts inflicted upon them at the hands of the Japanese military.

This is an English translation of a comic depicting the testimony of various victims.

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