As many as 3 / 4ths of comfortable women in Korea may have died during the war, according to a statement made by Representative SeijuroThe Arahune of the Japanese Diet in 1975. In which he claimed to cite figures provided by Korean authorities during the negotiations of 1965 Korea - agreement with Japan.
(However, the validity of this statement came into question because the number does not seem to be based on an actual investigation into the matter.)
Some sources further assume that most survivors were left fertile after the war, although it is not clear where this notion came from, as little in the way of a statistical study seems conducted in the incident of infertility of former comforting women.
According to an account of a survivor, he was beaten when he tried to fight the rape.
Women who are not 'prostitutes' before joining the "comfort women corps", especially those who are forced to coerce, are usually "broken" by the rapist.
A Korean woman, Kim Hak - sun, in an interview in 1991, spoke about how she was drawn to the comfortable women of the corps in 1941:
"When I was 17, Japanese soldiers drove a truck, beat us, and then pulled us in the back. I was told if I was drafted, I could make a lot of money in a textile factory ... The first day I was raped and the rapes never stopped ... I was born a woman but never lived as a woman ... I feel sick when I am close to a man. Japanese man, but all the men — even my own wife who saved me from the house — remember. I shudder whenever I see a Japanese flag ... Why am I ashamed? I should not feel ashamed.
Kim stated that she was raped 30-40 times a day, every day of the year during her time as a "comfortable woman".
Feminine status is even more reflected in femininity. Army and Navy records when referring to the movement of "comfortable women" always use the term "units of war supplies".
A Japanese Army doctor, Asō Tetsuo testified that "women of pleasure" are seen as "female bullets" and "public toilets", as literal objects to be used and abused, with some "women" comfortable "forced to donate blood for the treatment of wounded soldiers.
At least 80% of the "comforting women" were Koreans, who were assigned to lower ranks while Japanese and European women went to the officials.
For example, Dutch women caught in the Dutch East Indies (modern Indonesia) are reserved 'exclusively' for officers.
Korea is and is a country where sexual intercourse is widely disapproved of, and since most Korean teenagers who are taken in "female corps of comfort" are virgins, it feels like this is the best way to limit the spread of venereal diseases that soldiers and seafarers can catch.
Ten Dutch women were taken from the Javanese prison camps by Imperial Japanese Army officers to become forced sex slaves in February 1944. They were systematically beaten and raped day and night.
As a victim of the incident, in 1990, Jann Ruff O'Herne testified to the following, to a committee of the US House of Representatives:
Many stories were told about the fears, brutality, suffering and hunger of Dutch women in Japanese concentration camps. But one story is never told, the most embarrassing story of the worst human rights abuses committed by the Japanese during World War II: The story of "Comfortable Women", the jugun ianfu, and how these women were forcibly taken against their will, to provide sexual services for the Japanese Imperial Army. At the "comfortable station" systematically beaten and raped day and night. Even the Japanese doctor raped me every time he visited the nursing home to examine us for venereal disease.
On their first morning in the house-to-house, photographs of Ruff-O'Herne and others were taken and placed on the veranda used as a reception area for Japanese personnel to choose from.
Over the next 4 months, the girls were raped and beaten day and night. Pregnant women are forced to have an abortion.
After four offensive months, the girls were transferred to a camp in Bogor, in West Java, where they were reunited with their families.
This camp was exclusively for women housed in military malls, and the Japanese warned prisoners that if anyone told them what had happened to them, they and their family members would be killed. A few months later O'Hernes was transferred to a camp in Batavia. (released August 15, 1945.)
In Blora, twenty women and girls in Europe were imprisoned in two houses. For three weeks, as Japanese units passed through the houses, the women and their daughters were brutally raped and repeatedly raped.
On Boat Island, most nurses caught in Australia were raped before being killed.
The Japanese officials involved received some penalties from the Japanese authorities at the end of the war.
After the war, 11 Japanese officers were found guilty of a soldier sentenced to death by the Batavia War Criminal Court.
The court's decision found that the charge violated the Army's order to recruit only women volunteers. Victims from East Timor testified that they were forced into slavery even though they were not old enough to start menstruating.
Court evidence states that these prepubescent women were repeatedly raped by Japanese soldiers, while those who refused to comply were killed.
Hank Nelson, professor of emeritus, from the Asia Pacific Research Division of Australia National University, wrote about the Japanese military-run brothels in Rabaul (now Papau) during WWII.
He quotes from the diary of Gordon Thomas, a POW in Rabaul.
Thomas writes that housewives “probably served 25 to 35 men a day” and were “victims of the yellow slave trade”.
Nelson also quoted from Kentaro Igusa, a Japanese naval surgeon assigned to Rabaul. Igusa writes in his memories that women continue to work through infection and extreme discomfort, even when they “cry and ask for help”.
In the last stand of the Japanese forces in 1944–45, "comfortable women" were often forced to commit suicide or were killed.
At the Truk naval base, 70 "comfortable women" were killed prior to the expected American attack as the Navy mistakenly launched an American airstrike that destroyed Truk as a prelude to an American landing during the Battle Saipan "comfortable women" were among those who committed suicide by jumping into the gaps of Saipan.
The Japanese government told the Japanese colonists in Saipan that the American "white demons" were cannibals, and thus the preferred Japanese population committed suicide rather than fall into the hands of the American "white demons". In Burma, there have been cases of Korean "comfortable women" committing suicide by swallowing cyanide pills or being killed by throwing a grenade at their dug-outs.
During the Battle of Manila, when all the Japanese seafarers ran and killed, there were cases of "comfortable women" being killed, even though there seemed to be no systematic policy on killing "comfortable women".
Japanese propaganda claims that the Anglo-American "white demons" are cannibals whose favorite foods are Asians, and it is possible that many of the "Asian comforting women" may believe this, and prefer suicide rather than the supposed horror of being eaten alive by "white demons". British soldiers fighting in Burma often reported that the Korean "comfortable women" they had captured were astonished to learn that the British would not eat them.
Oddly, there have been cases of starving Japanese troops being cut off in the remote Pacific islands or trapped in the forests of Burma leading to cannibalism, and there have been at least many cases where "women are comfortable" in Burma and on the islands of the Pacific were killed to provide protein for the Imperial Japanese Army.
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