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Who were the Comfort Women?-Who were the Comfort Women? |
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The so-called "wartime comfort women" were those who were taken to former Japanese military installations, such as comfort stations, for a certain period during wartime in the past and forced to provide sexual services to officers and soldiers.
Authors who wrote about these women in the postwar Japan called them "jugun ianfu (comfort women joining the army)". And when the Japanese government first faced the issue of these women, it adopted this term, "jugun ianfu," and the AWF, when it started in 1995, it used this term as well. But in historical wartime documents we only find the term "ianfu (comfort women)". Therefore, we now always use this term "ianfu (comfort women)".
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Japanese Military and Comfort Women >Who were the Comfort Women?