Comfort women is the term used for women who are working in the brothels for the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, and many of them were forced into prostitution as a form of sexual slavery by the Japanese military during that period.

There were more than 300,000 to 700,000 comfort women from the countries occupied by the Japanese. Historians and researchers have affirmed that the greater part were from Korea, China, Japan and Philippines, but women from Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan, Indonesia, and other Japanese-occupied territories were also used in “comfort stations”. These stations were situated in Japan, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, then Malaya, Thailand, then Burma, then New Guinea, Hong Kong, Macau.
Young women from countries under Japanese Imperial power were reportedly abducted from their homes. In some cases, women were also recruited with recommendations to have jobs in the military facilities. It has been known that the Japanese military itself recruited women by force. Conversely a Japanese historian named, Ikuhiko Hata affirmed that there was no prearranged forced recruitment of comfort women by the Japanese government and the military.
Most of these military brothels were run by secretive agents and supervised by the Japanese Army. Many Japanese historians used the testimony of ex-comfort women to based their investigation. The historians have agreed that the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy were either directly or indirectly drawn in, in coercing, misleading, luring, and occasionally kidnap young women throughout Japan’s occupied territories.

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