South-East Asians: Women and Frontline Brothels

south-east asians: The statue depicts three women from China, Korea and the Philippines who symbolise women and teenage girls forced to work in frontline brothels from the early 1930s until Japan's wartime defeat in 1945, according to The Guardian. Sign up for the US morning briefing Campaigners and some historians say as many as 200,000 women mostly Koreans, but also Chinese, south-east Asians and a small number of Japanese and Europeans were forced or tricked into working in military brothels between 1932 and Japan's defeat in 1945. Osaka's mayor, Hirofumi Yoshimura, terminated official ties this week after the US city agreed to recognise the comfort women statue, which was erected by a private group last year in San Francisco's Chinatown district, as public property. In his 10-page letter to San Francisco's mayor, London Breed, Yoshimura noted that historians disagreed about the extent of the Japanese imperial army's involvement in the running of wartime brothels, and described claims included in the statue's inscription as lacking historical evidence. Most of these women died during their wartime captivity. The inscription reads This monument bears witness to the suffering of hundreds of thousands of women and girls, euphemistically called Comfort Women,' who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese Imperial Armed Forces in thirteen Asian-Pacific countries from 1931-1945. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.