Nearly fifty years after World War II Korean women broke their silence lasting for decades and began to speak out over their past. In the war time Japanese military authorities had deported them as women drafted for sexual slavery to frontline brothels. In this time about 200 000 Korean women were forced into these frontline brothels. After war and for many years to follow these women did not dare to speak about their past. In face of confucian tradition they feared to be outlawed by their own families as well as the society in general. Only now for the first time some of them have filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government at the Tokyo District Court. They demand an official apology from the Japanese government for these crimes and material compensation. International Organisations too support the demands of the former women drafted for sexual slavery.

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gender issue slave historical geography compensation twentieth century Korea