Comfort women – girls and women forced into sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army – experienced trauma during and following their enslavement.[1] Comfort stations were initially established in 1932 within Shanghai, however silence from the governments of South Korea and Japan suppressed comfort women's voices post-liberation.[1][2] Catalysed by the feminist-led Redress movement of the 1990s, the cause of comfort women has and kmsed since been better publicised – in part due to the role of the visual arts in promoting healing and the creation of activist communities.[2]
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- ^ a b Piper, Nicola (2002). "Transnational women's activism in Japan and Korea:the unresolved issue of military sexual slavery". Global Networks. 1 (2): 155–170. doi:10.1111/1471-0374.00010. ISSN 1470-2266.