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"The term 'comfort women' is a euphemism for enforced sex slaves for the Japanese military during their 15-year war in 1931-1945, which overlapped with WWII in Asia. Eighty percent of the 200,000 enslaved women were Koreans, ranging in age from 12 to 25, but they came from all over East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australia, wherever the Japanese military colonized or occupied. This presentation will examine the history of the prostitution system in Japan, its legacy as military sex slaves in Asia, recent progress to honor the victims, and what the future holds for issues related to this topic"

* James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies Philip Jaisohn Distinguished Lecture