The dance and musical activities of the comfort women outside the kinds of open performances I discuss above varied widely, depending on the kind of
comfort station and the relative tolerance of owners--ranging from strict censorship to active encouragement.
Music and dance in the Japanese military "comfort women" system: a case study in the performing arts, war, and sexual violence
This was not to be the case as this second Japanese man took her to the
comfort station. She does not know the exact location of the
comfort station, she indicated that she was so frightened that she didn't pay attention to the direction in which they were heading.
Women's voices, women's pain
Her earliest memories of those years include being taken to a dilapidated house in Shanghai which the army had taken over in order to establish a
comfort station. "They made little stalls for us," she says, "At one point I was very ill and almost died.
50-year search for justice: war crimes against (Korean) comfort women
The typical
comfort station was a house with ten cubicles und ten women, with strict rules of payment and a hierarchy of preferences and prices.
The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War
He added: Each garrison had a
comfort station, and ostensibly, this was to prevent the Japanese soldiers from raping the women (in the areas they occupied).
PH comfort women remember the horror
The new park design includes three fields for softball, baseball and soccer that will be open to all permitted teams, a new playground with a spray shower and swings and two basketball courts, a bocce ball court and a
comfort station. The developed 15 acres is also landscaped with interior nature trails weaving through the existing wooded areas.
$20m Staten Island park completed
Although she escaped from the
comfort station under the cover of darkness, she could not live happily with her husband after that and her son, born by a Japanese soldier, has been discriminated against in the community, according to an exhibited panel.
FOCUS: Exhibition on wartime sex slavery in China held in Tokyo
The project entailed the demolition and construction of a new
comfort station, usable year-round and includes vandal-resistant storage facilities and a" multipurpose room.
ACC completes park reconstruction
However, Japanese military headquarters in Jakarta closed down the
comfort station immediately after learning of the incident, and released the women.
Japanese editorial excerpts
A document also shows that the ministry and Yasukuni people, in a May 8, 1967, meeting, regarded the owner of a wartime ''
comfort station'' for nonmilitary people as a candidate for enshrinement.
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