Once a week, a military doctor came to check them for venereal diseases.
The soldiers guarded the house, supplied food and used the girls for sex, even when they had their periods. There were five Korean girls there, at least three of whom were teenagers. 1” (1993), a book of testimonies by former comfort women.
Kim was raped by a Japanese officer on the first night in that house, she said in “The Korean Comfort Women Who Were Coercively Dragged Away for the Military, Vol. The two girls were taken by truck to a military unit with a red brick house attached to it. But shortly after they arrived in Beijing, Japanese soldiers detained them. After her graduation in 1941, her adoptive father took her and another adopted daughter to China to find them jobs. When Kim was 15, she was adopted by another family, which enrolled her in a school for kisaeng, female entertainers who learned to sing, dance, play musical instruments and write poems to entertain upper-class men. She and her mother returned to Korea, where her mother remarried. 20, 1924, in Jilin, in northeastern China, where her parents had migrated during Japan’s colonial rule of Korea. “Kim Hak-soon’s initial statement propelled researchers to unearth documentary evidence to support her claims, which began the still-ongoing process of holding the Japanese government accountable for what the United Nations defines as a war crime and crime against humanity.” “She remains one of the bravest people of the 20th century,” said Alexis Dudden, a history professor at the University of Connecticut who specializes in Korea-Japan relations. Amid the uproar triggered by her testimony, Tokyo issued a landmark apology in 1993, admitting that the Japanese military was, “directly or indirectly, involved in the establishment and management of the comfort stations,” and that “coaxing” and “coercion” were used in the recruitment of comfort women. A protest started by Kim and others in 1992 is held outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul every Wednesday. In South Korea, 238 former comfort women would eventually step forward. McDougall, a former United Nations special rapporteur whose 1998 report defined Japan’s wartime enslavement of comfort women as crimes against humanity, said this year at a conference about Kim’s legacy. “Nothing that I wrote could come close to the impact of the personal firsthand account given publicly by Kim Hak-soon 30 years ago,” Gay J. But she left a long-lasting legacy and inspired other former sex slaves to come forward in Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Australia and the Netherlands. 16, 1997, just six years after the testimony.
Kim died of a lung disease when she was 73, on Dec.
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