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Japan Crimes. IN 1943 when Woo Yun Jae was just 16 years old, she was ripped
away from her family and village in Korea by two men ...
... Whereas, in the Tokyo war crimes tribunal he was exempted of all responsibilities
for all the atrocities made by Japan during the war. ...
... Some of these crimes included rape, bodily harm, extortion, burglary, and ... provide
sexual and recreational entertainment to the Allied forces occupying Japan. ...
... Japan's national police agency recorded 2.85m crimes last year, a 60% increase from
a decade earlier and the highest number reported since the end of the ...
... from paying rents to absentee landlords ? In September 1951, the UN and Japan agreed
to a ... c. The War Crimes Trial- ? 1945-1946, Nazi leaders went on trial at ...
Submitted by kharrs on March 11, 2008
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IN 1943 when Woo Yun Jae was just 16 years old, she was ripped away from her family and village in Korea by two men she had never met, put on a military truck, brought to a station, placed on a train with blacked-out windows and taken to China. There she was delivered to a Japanese military "comfort" station to which she had been allocated for the sexual pleasure of the soldiers. Shortly after her arrival, a Japanese soldier attempted to sexually assault her and brutally beat her. Woo tried to kill herself. A few days later, more than 20 soldiers raped her repeatedly. This was the beginning of her personal war within the greater war of Japanese aggression, an ordeal that would go on for many months. When in 1944 Japan was defeated in that part of China, the soldiers abandoned the military camp where Woo was being held, and some Korean journalists helped her to get a ticket home.
Because of the physical and psychological trauma of the repeated rapes (up to 30 and 40 a day for some women) and poor conditions (living in three-by-five foot cubicles and receiving monthly chemical injections meant to reduce cases of sexually transmitted diseases among soldiers), only about one-fourth of the estimated 200,000 women brought into this system are thought to have survived the war. While the vast majority of these women (around 85 percent) were Korean, women from other colonized Asian nations and some Dutch women were forced into "imperial service" in the comfort stations.
The cultural and social shame associated with this tragedy meant that many of the surviving women, like Woo, choose not to reveal what had happened to them during these lost months and years, even to their immediate families. Woo married and for more than 50 years never told her husband or her son about her ordeal. Her story and those of over 40 other victims, former soldiers and others were gathered in 1993 by the International Commission of Jurists and are one of the...
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