Benjamin Kim Mr.

Beckwith Honors US History 2 February 2013 Comfort Women With over 200,000 women from Korea detained and used as comfort women for the Japanese Imperial troops, Japan committed war crimes in the unjust acquisition of the innocent civilians from Korea who ranged between 12-25 years old. Victims were subject to sexual abuse, sexual humiliation, forced abortion, gang rape, and human exploitation. Yoo Kwansoon, a student martyr, convinced Korean nationalists to resist the mandatory conscription indicted by the Japanese Emperor. She was tried as a war criminal in Japan, and was tortured and raped. In response to Japans unlawful and imposed martial law, she served as a symbol to help galvanize the resistance efforts. Insurgents in Korea were executed and tried as criminals who committed treason. Members of Korea decided to organize peaceful protests and create independence movements as demonstrated in the 1919. Japans imperialism had unquestionably violated civil rights. Ahn Chango (1919), the main figure in the Korean independence movement, organized the protests against Japan. It was an organized effort that included insurgents in Manchuria and China. Forced Mobilization Sino-Japanese (China-Japan) War 1937 Pacific war during WWII (1941)

More than 6.5 million people were conscripted and put into forced labor.

Question: The compensation of the Japanese government succeeding the events of WWII (Japan had supposedly paid for their crimes through monetary means and through the criminal persecution of the war criminals. Was this sufficient and to what extent did they persecute such war criminals?

Japanese Generals committed suicide after the Emperor Hirohito declared unconditional surrender to the Allied Powers. Without a second, it took him a full 15 hours to die from his self-inflicted wounds.

In modern day society, 70 years in the future the victims of Japan have sued the government for retribution and have asked for an official, public apology towards the comfort women who had perished in the past before. As of now, none of these cases have been won and the comfort women now protest every Wednesday in front of the Japanese Capital (now called the Wednesday protests).

The NGO is protesting and spreading their international influence by visiting countries such as Cambodia in October of 2012 in order to educate society of the atrocities committed by the Japanese Government in the 1940s.

2007 House of Representatives passed House Resolution 121 which urged Japan to acknowledge and accept historical responsibility for the Armed Forces acquisition and coercion of young women into sexual slavery.

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