A memorial occasion for the sufferer of Japan’s sexual slavery of Korean ladies throughout World Warfare II is held at a park in Sokcho, Gangwon Province on Aug. 14. (Yonhap)
A sufferer of Japan’s sexual slavery of Korean ladies throughout World Warfare II has died, a civic group stated Saturday, bringing down the variety of formally registered surviving victims to eight.
The lady died lately, the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Problems with Navy Sexual Slavery by Japan stated, with out revealing her id.
At 18, the late sufferer traveled to China with a good friend to search out work at a stitching manufacturing unit however was pressured into sexual servitude for Japanese troops throughout World Warfare II, when Korea was underneath Japan’s colonial rule.
She could not return residence when the nation was liberated in 1945, solely managing to return again within the early 2000s and reunite together with her household.
Whereas alive, she actively testified about Japan’s wartime sexual slavery and labored to resolve associated points.
Her dying introduced the variety of formally surviving victims to eight, with a median age of 95.
Historians estimate that as much as 200,000 ladies, largely from Korea, had been pressured to work in front-line brothels for Japanese troops through the conflict.
Final yr, the Seoul Excessive Court docket overturned a decrease courtroom’s rejection of a damages go well with filed by 16 victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery and ordered Japan to pay the compensation requested by the victims.
The ruling was finalized as Japan didn’t enchantment, however it stays unclear whether or not the compensation will truly be paid, given Japan’s inaction.
