Confronting the Past: Japan and its Legal and Moral Responsibilities Towards Asian Comfort Women

Authors

Timothy D. Tree, Brigham Young University
Dr. Ray Christensen, Brigham Young University

Keywords

Japan, Asian comfort women, moral responsibilities, legal responsibilities, comfort stations

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

Political Science

Abstract

On August 14, 1991, Kim Hak-Sun became the first Asian comfort woman to break fifty years of self-imposed silence about the horrors she and thousands of other young Asian women endured a half century ago. Four months later, two more Korean women stepped forward and told the world their stories. These three Korean septuagenarians were former “comfort women”, women drafted by the Japanese Imperial Army for military sexual slavery during World War II (1).

Recommended Citation

Tree, Timothy D. and Christensen, Dr. Ray (2014) "Confronting the Past: Japan and its Legal and Moral Responsibilities Towards Asian Comfort Women," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2014: Iss. 1, Article 280.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2014/iss1/280