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ShortHand: Japan’s 'Comfort Women'

RedHanded
RedHanded
Episode • Mar 28, 2023 • 22m

Between 1932 and the end of the Second World War, an estimated 200,000 women and girls were enslaved by the Japanese military, and forced into sexual servitude. 

Japan’s so-called ‘comfort stations’ were hellish places, and 90% of those who were imprisoned in one did not survive the war…

Worst of all, these institutions were organised by the Japanese government itself.

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