New Book about Chinese Comfort Women

A new book has been released about Chinese comfort women. Comfort women were slaves from China, Korea, and other Asian countries that were used as 24 hour prostitutes by Japanese soldiers during World War II. I'm glad that this is something that can now be talked about instead of being shameful. Now I just wish we could have a dialogue about what American soldiers are doing to local women in the countries where they are based...but that's a story for another time. This is what the press release by the All-China Women's Federation (中华全国妇女联合会)says:

"A memoir containing 400 pictures and the stories of 67 surviving Chinese World War II comfort women was published on December 11 in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province.

Li Xiaofang, the author, said he spent three years visiting over 70 women all over China and South Korea. "Most of them lead a miserable life without a secure source of income," he revealed.

Fifteen old ladies from Qinxian and Wuxiang counties in north China's Shanxi Province made public their real names for the first time in this book.

Li Jinyu, one of the 15 elderly women, recalled that she was imprisoned by the Japanese army at the age of 14 in 1944 and forced to serve as a prostitute for two months. She became sterile due to the tragic experience."