Kang Il-chul was 16 when Japanese military police arrived at her home in South Korea and told her she was being conscripted. The year was 1943, and her country was just two years away from liberation after 35 years of brutal Japanese colonial rule.
Kang spent the remainder of the war in occupied China, as one of tens of thousands of Asian women forced to have sex with Japanese soldiers in frontline, makeshift brothels. "I was put in a tiny room and made to sleep with about 10 to 20 soldiers a day," says Kang, pausing to display the scars on her head – the result of frequent beatings by the military police. "I was punched and beaten so much that my body was covered in bruises. I still get headaches."
Almost 70 years after Japan's defeat, the treatment of such "comfort women" still haunts its relations with South Korea as the region, embroiled in long-standing territorial disputes, once again confronts the legacy of Japanese militarism. Lingering resentment over atrocities committed during the second world war – and the perception that Japan has failed to show enough remorse for its actions – help explain the periodical outbreaks of anti-Japanese rage in the region, and the angry reactions to high-profile visits to Yasukuni, the controversial war shrine in Tokyo. Full story...
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Kang spent the remainder of the war in occupied China, as one of tens of thousands of Asian women forced to have sex with Japanese soldiers in frontline, makeshift brothels. "I was put in a tiny room and made to sleep with about 10 to 20 soldiers a day," says Kang, pausing to display the scars on her head – the result of frequent beatings by the military police. "I was punched and beaten so much that my body was covered in bruises. I still get headaches."
Almost 70 years after Japan's defeat, the treatment of such "comfort women" still haunts its relations with South Korea as the region, embroiled in long-standing territorial disputes, once again confronts the legacy of Japanese militarism. Lingering resentment over atrocities committed during the second world war – and the perception that Japan has failed to show enough remorse for its actions – help explain the periodical outbreaks of anti-Japanese rage in the region, and the angry reactions to high-profile visits to Yasukuni, the controversial war shrine in Tokyo. Full story...
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