Comfort women were girls and women who were abducted and forced to become sexual slaves by the Japanese army in occupied territories before and during World War II. It is estimated that there were 200,000 comfort women from Korea. Women in Malaysia were also not spared from being comfort women during the Japanese occupation of the country during World War II. According to House of Sharing director Ahn Shin-Kwon, the surviving comfort women are still active because they want to recover their honour. He said that there is not much evidence left of the comfort women, as the Japanese had “destroyed” them, and its government is refusing to provide evidence to prove that the comfort women existed.

Source: New Strait Times October 25, 2019 06:11 UTC