The Pros And Cons Of Filipino Comfort Women

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As most Filipino comfort women decided to finally embark on the way toward justice, they were stopped by opposition and criticisms. For instance, memories of abuse by comfort women opposes the claim that comfort station functions to prevent rape cases. According to the Japanese officials, the “comfort stations” built during World War II serves to “prevent rape and sexually transmitted disease.” (Yoko 54). This is because during war times, Japanese armies performed numerous sexual crimes toward women that their government decided to establish the stations to limit their actions (Yoko 55). However, this claim made by Japanese proved to be inaccurate as the comfort women remembers how Japanese armies abducted and raped them multiple times. According

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