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Authors: Peipei Qiu,Su Zhiliang,Chen Lifei
Tags: #History, #Military, #World War II, #Modern, #20th Century, #Social Science, #Women's Studies
in second lawsuit against Japan,
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support for lawsuits of Chinese war victims,
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Kasahara Tokushi,
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Kawada Fumiko,
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Kim, Jason, xix Kim Hak-sun,
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Kim-Gibson, Dae-sil,
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Kōno Yōhei,
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Korea,
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See also
comfort women, drafted from Japan and Korea; redress movements in South Korea for comfort women; South Korea, postwar environment for comfort women Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan,
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Kuomintang.
See
Nationalist Party of China (Guomindang,
also
Kuomintang)
The Last Survivors
(film on Yin Yulin),
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Lei Guiying: comfort stations run by civilian proprietors under military control,
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escape from comfort station,
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experience as comfort women,
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false job offer led to work in Gaotaipo comfort station,
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life after liberation and death from a stroke,
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opium use while in comfort station,
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photograph,
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Levinge, Mrs. Andrew,
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Li Ao,
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Li Lianchun: death in 2004,
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denied permission to attend Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal,
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escape from comfort station,
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experience as comfort woman,
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flight into the mountains,
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insistence on education for her children,
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patriarchal sexism postwar,
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photograph,
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(f); Research Centre’s assistance for her grandchildren,
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Li Menghai,
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Li Yalun,
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Li Yaqian,
60
Li Yuanlin,
120
Liang Xin,
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Lin Boyao,
168
Lin Pagong,
60
Lin Yajin: escape from comfort station,
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experience as comfort woman,
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hard labour for military,
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,
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lawsuit against Japanese government,
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at opening ceremony of Chinese Comfort Women Archives,
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(f),
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photograph,
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(f); physical and mental wounds of survivors,
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testimony re. treatment by Japanese,
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,
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litigation by Chinese survivors against Japanese government: Chinese government’s reaction to dismissal of lawsuits,
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class action suit filed in US,
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defence by Japan, using Sino-Japanese peace treaty,
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defence using statute of limitations,
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extensive Japanese support for Chinese survivors and investigations,
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first lawsuit, appeals, and rejection (1995-2007),
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fourth lawsuit, appeals, and rejection (2001-10),
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Japanese courts’ rejection of government’s arguments,
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n
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judgment that Japan guilty of war crimes (Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal, 2000),
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other lawsuits by comfort women of other nationalities,
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refuting Japanese government’s nullification defence arguments,
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second lawsuit, appeals, and rejection (1996-2007),
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Taiwan women’s lawsuit (1999-2005),
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testimonies at Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal (2000),
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third lawsuit, appeals, and rejection (1998-2005),
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transnational groups’ investigations and support,
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by Wan Aihua,
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by Zhu Qiaomei,
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See also
Japan, postwar environment for comfort women Liu Erdan,
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Liu Guihua,
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Liu Jianchao,
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Liu Mianhuan, xvii-xix,
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,
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Longling County, Yunnan Province: Changqing Village, occupied,
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comfort station at Dongjia-gou,
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Longling Cultural Relics Bureau (Longling-xian wenwu guanlisuo),
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occupation by Imperial Japanese army,
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Lu Mingchang,
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Lu Xiuzhen: death in 2002,
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escape from comfort station,
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funeral attended by Chen Lifei,
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(f); at Hui’an-suo comfort station, Chongming Island,
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lawsuit against Japanese government, filed in US court,
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life after war,
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photograph,
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Research Centre’s payment for her gravestone,
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testimony notarized by Research Centre for Chinese Comfort Women,
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Lugou-qiao (Marco Polo Bridge) incident (1937),
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M
a Yingjiu,
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Manba Shitomi,
31
Manzhouguo,
21
Mao Yinmei,
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(f) Marco Polo Bridge (Lugou-qiao) incident (1937),
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Matsui Yayori,
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Matsuoka Tamaki,
17
McDonald, Gabrielle Kirk,
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McDougall, Gay J.,
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Miyazawa Kiichi,
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Mukden (or Manchurian) Incident (1931),
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Murayama Tomi’ichi,
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Museum of Sexual Slavery by Japanese Military (South Korea),
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Mutunga, Willy,
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N
agano Shigeto,
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Nakashita Yūko,
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Nanjing Massacre (Rape of Nanjing) (1937): brutality of,
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China’s representative
case before IMTFE,
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comfort stations in Nanjing,
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deaths of Chinese citizens,
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expansion of comfort station system after massacre,
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pleas from refugees to International Committee of the Nanjing Safety Zone,
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rapes during massacre,
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National People’s Congress (NPC. Quanguo renmin daibiao dahui),
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Nationalist Party of China (Guomindang,
also
Kuomintang): Committee for Investigating the Enemy’s War Crimes,
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fighting in Second Sino-Japanese War,
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military tribunals post-WWII,
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Netherlands, on Japan’s responsibility for comfort women system,
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Nishiyama (Japanese officer),
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Okamura Yasuji,
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Ōmori Noriko,
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One Hundred Thousand Comfort Women (Shiwan weianfu
) (Li Xiuping),
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Onodera Toshitaka,
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Operation Destroy All (Japanese,
jinmetsu sakusen
),
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Oyama Fumio,
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Ōyama Isao,
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P
alisades Park, New Jersey, monument to comfort women (2012), xix-xx Pan Shizhi,
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People’s Republic of China.
See
China Philippines: recommendation urging Japan to accept responsibility for comfort women system,
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testimonial accounts in English by former comfort women,
2
;
War Crimes on Asian Women: Military Sexual Slavery by Japan during World War II: The Case of the Filipino Comfort Women
(Sancho),
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A Proposed Law for the Timely Resolution of the Issues Concerning the Victims of Wartime Forced Sexual Slavery (Senji seiteki kyōsei higaisha mondai no kaiketsu no sokushin ni kansuru hōritsu an),
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Qin Gang,
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Qin-Hua Rijun baoxing zonglu
(Collection of investigative records of the atrocities committed by the Japanese forces during Japan’s invasion of China),
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Qiu Siyi,
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r
ansom: of comfort women,
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of Liu Mianhuan, xviii,
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recruiting comfort women.
See
comfort women, “recruiting” redress movements:
baoxinglu
(Chinese publications on atrocities),
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Center for Research and Documentation on Japan’s War Responsibility (JWRC),
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discrimination, ostracism, poverty of comfort women postwar, xix,
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English publications of testimonies by former comfort women,
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initiated in early 1990s, xix,
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museums and memorials to commemorate comfort women,
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source materials for current book,
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Taipei Women’s Rescue Foundation in Taiwan,
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Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal (2000),
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See also
litigation by Chinese survivors against Japanese government;
entries beginning with
redress movements redress movements in China for comfort women:
baoxinglu
(Chinese publications on atrocities) in response to Japanese denials,
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difficulties due to Japanese military’s destruction of records at end of WWII,
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financial aid for survivors,
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individual victims not just comfort women,
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