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Japan > Sex slaves / 'Comfort women' from Korea / The Philippines

 

 

 

 

Remedios Tecson (from left), Estela Adriatico, Narcisa Claveria, Felicidad delos Reyes and Estelita Dy

were teens when they were sexually enslaved.

 

Many of the estimated 1,000 Filipinas

who served as "comfort women" died of injuries or illness.

 

Survivors suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.

 

Many went on to marry

but said their wartime experiences made them societal outcasts.

 

Cheryl Diaz Meyer for NPR

 

PHOTOS: There Still Is No Comfort For The 'Comfort Women' Of The Philippines

NPR

December 4, 2020    12:11 PM ET

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/12/04/
940819094/photos-there-still-is-no-comfort-for-the-comfort-women-of-the-philippines

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"When we arrived to the Red House,

I was pushed so hard that I was knocked unconscious,

so I don't recall what happened to me ...

but even today, I feel the pain in my body,"

said Maria Lalu Quilantang, who was 9 years old

when her village of Mapaniqui was attacked

by the Japanese during World War II.

 

Cheryl Diaz Meyer for NPR

 

PHOTOS: There Still Is No Comfort For The 'Comfort Women' Of The Philippines

NPR

December 4, 2020    12:11 PM ET

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/12/04/
940819094/photos-there-still-is-no-comfort-for-the-comfort-women-of-the-philippines

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"I'm afraid here. This is not a good place,"

said Teresita Bermudez Dayo as she visited the remains of the Belo Mansion,

where she was imprisoned and forced to serve as a "comfort woman" during World War II.

Japanese soldiers had stopped her family when the family was traveling,

declared that the 12-year-old was pretty and took her to their armored vehicle.

 

Cheryl Diaz Meyer for NPR

 

PHOTOS: There Still Is No Comfort For The 'Comfort Women' Of The Philippines

NPR

December 4, 2020    12:11 PM ET

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/12/04/
940819094/photos-there-still-is-no-comfort-for-the-comfort-women-of-the-philippines

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lydia Alonzo Sanchez was 14

when she was sexually assaulted by Japanese soldiers

on Nov. 23, 1944, during a mass rape.

 

PHOTOS: There Still Is No Comfort For The 'Comfort Women' Of The Philippines

NPR

December 4, 2020    12:11 PM ET

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/12/04/
940819094/photos-there-still-is-no-comfort-for-the-comfort-women-of-the-philippines

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Narcisa Claveria

receives a gentle kiss from her great-grandson, Joseph Tena, 8,

whom she and her husband have raised

since his father died when he was an infant.

 

Claveria was 12

when Japanese soldiers took her as a sex slave for 1 1/2 years.

 

They raped her mother and skinned her father alive

before burning down their house.

 

She could hear him scream,

"Children, where are you? I'm in such pain."

 

Cheryl Diaz Meyer for NPR

 

PHOTOS: There Still Is No Comfort For The 'Comfort Women' Of The Philippines

NPR

December 4, 2020    12:11 PM ET

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/12/04/
940819094/photos-there-still-is-no-comfort-for-the-comfort-women-of-the-philippines

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fedencia Nacar David

holds her photo for an application to work as a maid.

 

She was 15. A year before,

a Japanese soldier sliced her ear and threatened to behead her

if she didn't go to a garrison with him; she was raped over 10 days.

 

"It still hurts," she says.

"I was innocent. Why did that happen to me?"

 

She kept her past from her children

until "comfort women" began speaking out in the 1990s.

 

Cheryl Diaz Meyer for NPR

 

PHOTOS: There Still Is No Comfort For The 'Comfort Women' Of The Philippines

NPR

December 4, 2020    12:11 PM ET

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/12/04/
940819094/photos-there-still-is-no-comfort-for-the-comfort-women-of-the-philippines

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Juliana dela Cruz, 92,

lies at her home in Roxas City on May 27, 2019.

 

She died Sept. 12 of that year.

 

In 1998, she testified: "At the garrison, they imprisoned me in a room.

 

The cook was the only one who could give me food.

 

The only other ones I saw

were the three soldiers who came into my room every night

and raped me three to five times a night in the course of one month."

 

PHOTOS: There Still Is No Comfort For The 'Comfort Women' Of The Philippines

NPR

December 4, 2020    12:11 PM ET

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/12/04/
940819094/photos-there-still-is-no-comfort-for-the-comfort-women-of-the-philippines

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maria Quistadio Arroyo was 12

when she was sexually enslaved for three months by Japanese soldiers.

 

She eventually married and had seven children

but says her husband became abusive in his later years,

beating her until his death in 1997.

 

"For years," she testified,

"I endured my husband's ridicule

while no one pointed fingers

at those ... responsible for the [wartime] assaults."

 

Cheryl Diaz Meyer for NPR

 

PHOTOS: There Still Is No Comfort For The 'Comfort Women' Of The Philippines

NPR

December 4, 2020    12:11 PM ET

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/12/04/
940819094/photos-there-still-is-no-comfort-for-the-comfort-women-of-the-philippines

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

'Comfort women'

 

system of sexual servitude

set up by the Japanese imperial troops

during World War II.

 

They used abduction,

coercion and deception

to force women and girls

to provide sexual gratification

to military personnel.

 

Researchers cited in court cases

say that large numbers of them

did not survive.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/12/04/
940819094/photos-there-still-is-no-comfort-for-the-comfort-women-of-the-philippines

 

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/12/04/
940819094/photos-there-still-is-no-comfort-for-the-comfort-women-of-the-philippines

 

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/29/

939811000/filipino-survivor-recounts-her-struggle-as-a-comfort-woman-in-japan

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/29/
unforgivable-japan-decries-wartime-sex-slave-statue-likened-to-pm-shinzo-abe

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/14/
comfort-women-crisis-campaign-over-wartime-sexual-slavery-hit-by-financial-scandal

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/09/
japanese-officials-helped-procure-wartime-sex-slaves-report-claims

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/
world/asia/comfort-women-documentary-japan.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/
world/asia/japan-aichi-trienniale.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/
opinion/letters/japan-sex-slaves-world-war-ii.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/30/
japanese-paper-sparks-anger-as-it-ditches-ww2-forced-labour-term

 

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/30/
672423391/japan-times-newspaper-redefines-comfort-women-and-forced-labor

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/21/
anger-in-japan-as-south-korea-dissolves-comfort-women-foundation

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/
us/osaka-sf-comfort-women-statue.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/
world/asia/japan-south-korea-comfort-women.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/25/
world/asia/comfort-women-statue.html

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/11/13/
563838610/comfort-woman-memorial-statues-a-thorn-in-japans-side-now-sit-on-korean-buses

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/
opinion/comfort-women-japan-south-korea.html

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/05/30/
529671510/not-all-south-koreans-satisfied-with-japans-apology-to-comfort-women

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/
world/asia/korean-comfort-women-park-yu-ha-japan.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/
opinion/no-closure-on-the-comfort-women.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/dec/28/
abe-hails-japan-south-korea-aid-agreement-comfort-women-wartime-sex-slaves-video

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/28/
the-guardian-view-on-japan-south-korea-and-comfort-women-one-step-towards-healing-the-wounds-of-the-past

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/28/
korean-comfort-women-agreement-triumph-japan-united-states-second-world-war

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/19/
world/asia/south-korea-comfort-women-park-yu-ha.html

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/15/
opinion/comfort-women-and-japans-war-on-truth.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/03/
comfort-women-deserve-a-memorial-their-ordeal-must-not-be-forgotten

 

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2011/06/04/
134271795/comfort-women-untold-stories-of-wartime-abuse

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/09/japan.
secondworldwar 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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