Between 1932 to 1945, women and girls throughout the world were forced to provide sexual services to members of the Japanese military as so-called “wartime comfort women” (jugun ianfu in Japanese). This system of institutionalized sexual slavery, carried out through so-called “comfort stations” across Asia, was state-organized and has since become one of the most controversial historical and human rights issues in Asia. Over the decades, women and advocates in different countries have...
