Comfort Women In Ww2

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World War II: an extensive six year time span of barbarity, brutality, and savagery. This war has exceeded the death toll of World War One, with over 72 million civilian deaths. During this substantial period of time, lives were not the only loss of the citizens. Those who were still alive lived stripped of their identity, family, and their own rights. The Rape of Nanking, country invasions, and bombings are all well-known and great examples of some of these violated human rights. However, there is another case where it also applies, and that is with comfort women. World War II was a tragic time of brutality and violence that saw many lives lost, and many human rights violated; however the use of "comfort women" by the Japanese not only violated their rights but continues to be controversial today.

Comfort Women were women forced into prostitution corps, created by Japan during the WWII. Till today, the brutality of this wrong-doing remains unacknowledged by the Japanese authorities. “Comfort Women” was a more pleasant translation of prostitutes. Due to the lack of adm...

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