Episode Details

This week I sit down with Jenny Chan, director of Pacific Atrocities Education, to talk about the many "comfort women" who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese government in the years leading up to and during World War II. We've talked about the generals, the battles, the military movements, but we haven't yet focused on the victims. These women from China, Korea, etc. were often tricked or even downright abducted and forced into comfort stations where they were repeatedly abused by members of the Japanese Imperial Army around the clock. But who's telling their story? To this day there are many who deny this sort of government sanctioned sexual slavery even happened. Let's fix that. 

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Sources: 

• Wikipedia "Nanjing Massacre"
• Encyclopedia Britannica "Russo-Japanese War"
• Encyclopedia Britannica "Treaty of Portsmouth"
• Harvard Law School "J. Mark Ramseyer"

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