In an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale, the tragedy of the so-called comfort women—mostly Korean women forced into prostitution by the Ja

Arguably the most brutal crime committed by the Japanese military during the Asia-Pacific war was the forced mobilization of 50,000 to 200,000 Asian women to mi

Available for the first time in English, this is the definitive account of the practice of sexual slavery the Japanese military perpetrated during World War II

This book comprises a collection of life stories originally published in 1993 in Korean as Kangjero kkŭllyŏgan Chosŏnin kunwianbudŭl [The Korean comfort wom

During the Asia-Pacific War, the Japanese military forced hundreds of thousands of women across Asia into "comfort stations" where they were repeatedly raped an