Distressing footage of sex slaves used by soldiers in World War Two revealed for the first time

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Grainy footage of sex slaves waiting to be freed after years of abuse at the hands of Japanese soldiers in World War Two has emerged.

 

The bare-footed women can be seen in the black and white video standing outside a brick house – believed to be a military-run brothel at Songshan in China.

 

Researchers uncovered the footage shot in 1944 following a painstaking two year investigation through archives to gather more evidence of sex slaves being used during the war.

The Japanese military's use of sex slaves during World War Two is a controversial issue - with up to 200,000 women mainly from former Japanese colony Korea believed to have been forced into sex slavery.

 

Until now only photographs and survivors' have been the only records of Korean sex slaves.

The footage was discovered at the US National Archives and Records Administration where it had been gathering dust for some 70 years.

 

A team from Seoul University and Seoul Government matched the footage outside the building to pictures and identified the women by their clothes and facial appearance.

University professor Kang Sung-hyun, who participated in the study, said: "Their appearance, such as the bare feet, suggest they were enslaved.

 

"Due to a long-standing dispute over Japan's wartime sexual slavery, it became crucial to come up with evidence.

 

"This video clip will strengthen the admissibility of evidence behind wartime sex slavery."

Footage tied in with wartime records showing a dozen sex slaves being captured in Songshan by the allied forces in September 1944. The allied forces interrogated them before they were released back to the Koreans in 1946.

 

The women and the place captured in the clip also matched those shown in a set of photos taken by Edwards C. Fay, a private of the U.S. Army Signal Corps' 164th Photographic Unit, which were uncovered in 2000.

 

Researchers believe the names of the women in the video are on the list of the former Korean sex slaves who were captured in China, including former sex slave Park Young-shim who is believed to be the pregnant woman.

 

Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon said: "As unfortunate history must also be recorded and remembered so that it is not repeated, the Seoul government will focus all of its capacity and resources in documenting history and setting things right."

 

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[iamayam]

They did.

[Teru]

very sad. wish that these women could get the apology they deserve one day.

[gore]

:(

[Trixbox]

War is Hell

[chiirbii]

I'm glad that there are researches doing their best to document the sexual crimes that happened back in WWII. I'm sad that they have to because there are still people that refuse to believe it happened.

[KentasGlittery EyeMakeup]

I'm glad that there are researches doing their best to document the sexual crimes that happened back in WWII. I'm sad that they have to because there are still people that refuse to believe it happened.

I mean, there are people who still deny holocaust happen, so I don't know why I'm even so surprised that people won't acknowledge this either, but I am, I am disappointed and sad for them and they deserve justice 

[chiirbii]

I mean, there are people who still deny holocaust happen, so I don't know why I'm even so surprised that people won't acknowledge this either, but I am, I am disappointed and sad for them and they deserve justice 

I still like to pretend that those people don't exist. 

[blank_stare]

Ugh. Japan needs to own up their atrocities.

 

 

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[pandabear]

I don't understand why Japan won't admit it.

They have. I do believe it's even mentioned in their more common school text books. But 1) Japan's current ruling party doesn't recognize it and is trying to whitewash it and 2) This image of Japan suits SK political landscape so they will continue to promote it. Previously, Sk has lied before about Japan and compensentating victims. They had said Japan had never compensated victims, BUT papers were later discovered where Japan did make an agreement of compensation for all forced labor and wanted to give it to the victims themselves. SK said they would hand it out themselves and instead used the money for the economy. The Japanese people themselves opened a women's relief fund for the comfort women, (in the 90s I think), that included a written letter from the PM at that time, and the fund didn't close until 2015. Any comfort women who accepted the deal were criticised as traitors because the money didn't come from Japan's government. This issue isn't going to be resolved until 1) Abe isn't in power and 2) SK actually tries to resolve it rather than use the issue for political popularity or a cover for racism.

[Ellla]

So sad...

[aeromancy]

So sad. Photos are one thing, but seeing them alive and moving while knowing what happened really adds another layer to it. Those poor women :(

[juicy milky thighs]

Japan oppa didn't mean it

[Cherry blossom]

Its sick how Japan lies and don't cover it in their history books. Don't get me started on the Japanese Right wing part of youtube where they say Nanking massacre was a hoax and Comfort women either didn't exist, or were not kidnapped but mostly "volunteered" 

[delirium]

Some of the heaviest costs of war seem to be paid by the innocent people who are caught in the middle. It's heartbreaking what people have to suffer through and even more so when they must suffer in silence.

[Rohan Kishibe]

I don't understand why Japan won't admit it.

Except they have, I don't understand why Korea won't admit they did the same thing to vietnam.

[DocumentaLy]

They have. I do believe it's even mentioned in their more common school text books. But 1) Japan's current ruling party doesn't recognize it and is trying to whitewash it and 2) This image of Japan suits SK political landscape so they will continue to promote it. Previously, Sk has lied before about Japan and compensentating victims. They had said Japan had never compensated victims, BUT papers were later discovered where Japan did make an agreement of compensation for all forced labor and wanted to give it to the victims themselves. SK said they would hand it out themselves and instead used the money for the economy. The Japanese people themselves opened a women's relief fund for the comfort women, (in the 90s I think), that included a written letter from the PM at that time, and the fund didn't close until 2015. Any comfort women who accepted the deal were criticised as traitors because the money didn't come from Japan's government. This issue isn't going to be resolved until 1) Abe isn't in power and 2) SK actually tries to resolve it rather than use the issue for political popularity or a cover for racism.

 

Thank you! People accuse Japan of glossing over its history, but Korea has done the same in regards to its relationship with Japan, which resulted in Japan currently glossing over what it did to Korea.

[peachtea]

Except they have, I don't understand why Korea won't admit they did the same thing to vietnam.

 

I'm not excusing what Korean soldiers did in Vietnam, because it was abhorrent, but what they did in Vietnam does not equate to what Japan did in WW2. Also, Korea was not the only country that had women forced into sex labor. Women from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Burma, Vietnam, China, the Philippines and East Timor were made to be comfort women. Even Dutch and Australian women were forced into sex labor.

 

Japan has only acknowledged that they forced Korean women into sex labor, they have not acknowledged or apologized to any other country for it

[Twi.T]

Some of the heaviest costs of war seem to be paid by the innocent people who are caught in the middle. It's heartbreaking what people have to suffer through and even more so when they must suffer in silence.

[DocumentaLy]

I'm not excusing what Korean soldiers did in Vietnam, because it was abhorrent, but what they did in Vietnam does not equate to what Japan did in WW2. Also, Korea was not the only country that had women forced into sex labor. Women from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Burma, Vietnam, China, the Philippines and East Timor were made to be comfort women. Even Dutch and Australian women were forced into sex labor.

 

Japan has only acknowledged that they forced Korean women into sex labor, they have not acknowledged or apologized to any other country for it

 

Actually, Japan has apologized to other countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan

 

The only countries that are still dwelling on this issue are Korea and China.

[Brittany]

Except they have, I don't understand why Korea won't admit they did the same thing to vietnam.

Not even comparable lmao. Not when this wasn't institutionally enforced by their government, unlike Japan. Korean women were literally taken away from their families, transported to China as commodities and kept there for years, majority either dying, gaining STDs, or being barren. Korea wasn't even part of the war against Japan. It was the Japanese government's way of boosting up soldier morale. Compare that to your soldiers acting out to rape women once or twice under your notice (which happens in most wars, mind you), the Korean government's fault lies in how it handled the problem, but it's not like they strategized upon what was a less problematic issue.

[Slayer]

I always get surprised when most of the people here in the west doesn't know about the atrocities that japan committed during the WW II

I would bet money that most of them haven't heard about the Nanking Massacre

[terryy78]

They need to proper acknowledge this in their history & apologize to sex slave victims descendant

 

The images of nanjing massacare so unhuman