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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!

News

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.

Check out below links for statements and petitions that you can read and sign on!
  • Petition by Korean Association of Harvard Law School: http://bit.ly/KAHarvardLaw
  • Petition by Feminists on Ramseyer: https://sites.google.com/view/feministsonramseyer/home
  • Statement by the Council of Korean Americans: http://bit.ly/KoreanCouncil
  • Statement by Cohen, Fulton, Fulton, Henry, Kim, Kim, Kim, King, Lee, Lee, Oh, Paik, Qiu, Son, Stetz, and Yuh: http://chwe.net/irle/cohen_et_al.pdf
  • Statement by the Asian American Youth Council: http://kanwin.org/downloads/AAYC.pdf​

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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

Read these books

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

Radhika Coomaraswamy, “Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Its Causes and Consequences,” United Nations, January 4, 1996
U.S. House Resolution 121 in Support of “Comfort Women” Survivors, 2007
Norimitsu Onishi, “In Japan, a Historian Stands by Proof of Wartime Sex Slavery,” The New York Times, March 31, 2007
Jessie Kindig, “Nightmares Must Be Told,” Jacobin, August 14, 2017
Elizabeth W. Son, “‘Comfort Women’: Traveling Between History and Hope,” Los Angeles Review of Books, February 5, 2018
Choe Sang-Hun, “Kim Bok-dong, Wartime Sex Slave Who Sought Reparations for Koreans, Dies at 92,” The New York Times, January 29, 2019
Esther Brito Ruiz, "Before #MeToo, There Were the 'Comfort Women,' The Diplomat, January 10, 2020

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"Breaking the History of Silence"
Interactive Documentary on “Comfort Women” Asks You to Listen to Victims of Sexual Violence
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"The Apology" Filmmaker Statement
"The Apology" Discussion Guide

Check Out These Educational resources

Education for Social Justice Foundation: "Comfort Women" History and Issues
Curriculum and Resources for "Comfort Women" Education (For High School)

Organization Websites

The Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan
House of Sharing
Movement for the Lolas
"Comfort Women" Justice Coalition
CARE: Comfort Women Action for Redress and Education
Education for Social Justice Foundation

Museums to Check out

e-Museum of the Victims of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery
Women and War Museum (Seoul, South Korea)
Women's Active Museum on War and Peace (Tokyo, Japan)
House of Sharing Museum (Gwangju, South Korea)
Chinese Comfort Women History Museum (Shanghai, China)

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    • Visit KAN-WIN's Website
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    • Global Action Day & #ComeSitWithHer
    • Survivor Testimonies
    • Art >
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    • Organizing
  • Educational Resources
    • Map
    • History of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery
    • State Violence Today
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