Sad News today that reminds us of an uplifting person who was a champion for all the comfort women under the Japanese during World War II. Jan Ruff – O’Herne died at the age of 96 on Monday August 19, 2019 in Adelaide, Australia. This photo of her as a young woman was taken when […]
Around January 1944, a number of young women were forcibly removed from our concentration camp in central Java, Camp Moentilan (Muntilan), to serve as comfort women / sex slaves. This was all hush-hush as far as we children were concerned and nobody used the word “sex”, but we had a good inkling of what was […]
The subject of the use of “comfort women” by the Japanese military during World War II has popped up in the news repeatedly starting in 2007 when Shinzo Abe, the Japanese Prime Minister at that time, denied that the Japanese military had forced women into sexual slavery during World War II in an orchestrated way. […]
