Comfort Women Memorial

From 1931 through 1945 during world war ii hundreds of thousands of girls and women from 11 countries were sexually enslaved by the imperial japanese armed forces.

Comfort women memorial. As the first official project proposed and carried out by the ycfl the comfort women memorial is dedicated to the forgotten victims of all wars especially the comfort women in our sordid history of mankind. Estimates vary as to how many women were involved with numbers. Few memorials speak of women even less of their suffering courage endurance and determination to achieve justice.

Julie tang a retired san francisco judge and co chair of the comfort women justice coalition previously told nbc news that there were about 50 comfort women alive when she first got involved in a. The comfort women memorial in the city of san francisco was spearheaded by korean chinese and filipino activists and philanthropists and is the first of its kind to be co created by the 13 victim communities. Questo monumento è un ricordo di tutte le donne filippine che furono vittime di abusi durante l occupazione giapponese 1942 1945.

Most of the victims were korean and chinese although many others were from the philippines indonesia the netherlands burma thailand vietnam malaysia australia east timor hong kong and macau. Koreans feel the pain of what happened to these women so deeply that korean populations in the diaspora have put up replicas of the statue in. Comfort women were mainly women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the imperial japanese army in occupied countries and territories before and during world war ii and the earlier program of voluntary prostitution.

The san francisco comfort women memorial is a monument dedicated to comfort women before and during world war ii. They were called euphemistically comfort women. The name comfort women is a translation of the japanese ianfu 慰安婦 a euphemism for prostitute s.

It is built in remembrance of the girls and women that were sexually enslaved by the imperial japanese army through deceit coercion and brutal force. Plans are underway to build sister statues in major cities of many of the former victim counties. Comfort women memorial between 1931 and the end of ww2 hundreds of thousands of girls and women were forced into sexual slavery by the imperial japanese army.

Ahn is one of a few dozen comfort women still alive. This memorial will speak of all that and more. Comfort women is the japanese imperial government s euphemism for the women and children they trafficked as sex slaves between 1932 and 1945 until the end of world war ii.