ABSTRACT
The footnotes are provided by John Y. Lee, Attorney, and Chairman of the Washington Coalition for Comfort Women Issues, a non-profit organization created to seek redress for the victims who were sexual slaves of the Japanese Army. Japanese armed forces took captive about 200,000 women for use as sexual slaves in military brothels during the Second World War. The Japanese Imperial Army forced the women taken from Korea, China, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, and the Dutch East Indies to commit sexual acts with its soldiers. Often, they were beaten and tortured in addition to being raped. Despite the action of the United Nations and individual countries holding Japan responsible for violating the human rights of the comfort women, the Government of Japan still refuses to recognize its legal responsibility for crimes involving the sexual slavery system.
