Recovery: Pak Young-hee, a North Korean "comfort woman," and her sisters

Author: Chen Lifen
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: "Comfort women" is a compound word in Japanese. In Japanese books and dictionaries before World War II, the term "comfort women" was never seen, but "comfort" as a verb has always existed, meaning "to console" or "to soothe." It was only during World War II that "comfort" was combined with "women" to create the term...