Story of a Comfort Girl

Story of a Comfort Girl

In 1991, a Council for Korean Comfort Womenâ€™s issues was formed to record the testimony of survivors of the Japanese Labor Service Corps, a branch of the Japanese military charged with setting up brothels to serve its troops during WWII. To populate these â€œcomfort stations,â€ as they were euphemistically called, the Japanese army drafted or tricked some two-hundred thousand girls, most from rural Korea, into coming to work in military â€œfactories.â€ Instead, they were forced into sexual slavery.

After the war, the surviving comfort women, gripped with a crushing sense of shame, rarely if ever spoke about their ordeals. As a result, their suffering has barely been acknowledged in history books. Realizing that the survivors were dying off, the Council was formed to record their accounts before it was too late; before Japanese revisionists erased these unfortunate events from the history books forever.

"Story of a Comfort Girl" is the moving first-person account of one such survivor.
Country USA
Manufacturer Amazon Digital Services
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2012-04-16
Format Kindle eBook

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