Comfort Women Quotes

After the Japanese surrender in World War II, the Japanese assumed that the American occupational soldiers would rape Japanese women the way that the Japanese soldiers had done in their occupations. They therefore came up with a plan to have some Japanese women serve as prostitutes in organized brothels so that the Americans' lust would be satisfied.

During WWII, the Japanese militarists maintained what they euphemistically described as “brothels” of “comfort women.” They Japanese forced 200,000 Korean Women to become sex slaves for the Japanese Troops in addition to Dutch and other white civilians interned by the Japanese in Asia. For years after the war, the Japanese Governments denied this or maintained a discrete silence. Finally some of the Korean women demanded an apology and restitution and it became a world-wide scandal. Unlike Germany which went through a public nationwide assessment of their WWII atrocities, Japan’s apologies for their war crimes have always been very muted and discrete and Japanese students are not even taught about the Japanese atrocities. Worse, nationalist Japanese politicians have either denied the facts about the sex slavery or as in this quotation, attempted to justify the horrid behavior. See {632770} for an American approach to the same problem.

"Comfort women" was the euphemism used by the Japanese Military in World War II for the forced prostitution of women of occupied territories.