Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army before and during World War II.[1][2][3] ↑ "慰安婦=日本軍に強制的に性奴隷にされた婦女子"と定義されたまま。 ------------------------------------------------------------ アメリカ合衆国下院121号決議(米下院慰安婦決議):"慰安婦=性奴隷"の定義 (Wikipedia) H. Res. 121 In the House of Representatives, U. S., July 30, 2007.
Whereas the Government of Japan, during its colonial and wartime occupation of Asia and the Pacific Islands from the 1930s through the duration of World War II, officially commissioned the acquisition of young women for the sole purpose of sexual servitude to its Imperial Armed Forces, who became known to the world as ianfu or `comfort women';
Whereas the `comfort women' system of forced military prostitution by the Government of Japan, considered unprecedented in its cruelty and magnitude, included gang rape, forced abortions, humiliation, and sexual violence resulting in mutilation, death, or eventual suicide in one of the largest cases of human trafficking in the 20th century;