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TAIWAN - WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS DEMAND JAPAN APOLOGIZE TO WORLD WAR II COMFORT WOMEN

Editor: Wu Linfei - August 16, 2012

Many organizations in Taiwan, including the Taipei Women's Rescue Foundation, have sent protest letters to Interchange Association (Japan) and appealed for Japan to issue a public apology to the Taiwanese women who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II. 

Members of women's organizations protest in Taipei for Japan apology to WW II Comfort Women.

The letters were sent on August 15, 2012, marking the 67th anniversary of Japan's surrender at the end of World War II. In addition, the year 2012 marks the 20th anniversary of the appeal for apology and compensation from Japan for Taiwanese comfort women. There are currently less than ten elderly women living in Taiwan who served as comfort women during World War II. The average age of the women is 88.

'Comfort women' are girls and women from all over Japan's occupied territories at the time who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II. The majority of the women were from Korea, China, Philippines, Taiwan and Southeast Asia.

(Source:Chinanews/Translated by womenofchina.cn)