New exhibition focuses on Japanese "comfort women"

The issue of women from other countries being forced into sexual servitude as "comfort women" under the Japanese military during wartime has been well documented.But the voices of Japanese women who say they were sexually exploited by their countrymen have rarely been heard."For the first time we focus on Japanese women, who have been unable to come out, despite their painful experiences during World War II," said Mina Watanabe, secretary general of the Women's Active Museum on War and Peace in Tokyo, which has organized several exhibitions about comfort women since its launch in 2005.The l…READ FULL ARTICLE