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The “comfort women” system was a horrific atrocity. Yet, the “comfort women” survivors are also artists, educators, and activists who have worked passionately to support survivors of sexual violence everywhere. The movement they started invites us all to participate and take action against oppression. Check out what you can do today!

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February 16, 2021
A Harvard Law School professor claimed in his recent paper that women and girls knowingly and willingly entered into a valid contract to serve as Japanese military prostitutes during World War II. J. Mark Ramseyer argues that the recruitment of "comfort women" victims was a consenting, contractual process.

We at KAN-WIN join the "comfort women" survivors, activists and scholars across the globe in calling out Ramseyer's outrageous denialism. His paper masks the overwhelming historical evidence of the Japanese military sexual slavery under the guise of contractual law and game theory and blatantly ignores a vast collection of "comfort women" survivor testimonies that bear witness to the horrific crime of sexual violence. It is ludicrous to believe that girls and women from occupied territories, some as young as 12, could enter into a contract without coercion or consent to abduction and rape.

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"Life As A 'Comfort Woman': Story of Kim Bok-Dong" uploaded by Asian Boss
"Meet Estelita Dy: A Filipino Comfort Woman Survivor" uploaded by Asian Boss
"'Herstory' Comfort Women Animation - English" uploaded  by jkkim1999

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Korean Council for Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan and Keith Howard, ed.'s True Stories of the Korean Comfort Women
M. Evelina Galang's Lola's House: Filipino Women Living with War
Peipei Qiu, Su Zhiliang, and Chen Lifei's Chinese Comfort Women: Testimonies from Imperial Japan's Sex Slaves
Maria Rosa Henson's Comfort Woman: A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery Under the Japanese Military
Jan Ruff-O'Herne's Fifty Years of Silence: The Extraordinary Memoir of a War Rape Survivor
Elizabeth W. Son's Embodied Reckonings: "Comfort Women," Performance, and Transpacific Redress
Margaret Stetz and Bonnie B.C. Oh's Legacies of the Comfort Women of World War II
Yoshiaki Yoshimi's Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War II
Emily Jungmin Yoon's A Cruelty Special to Our Species: Poems

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