Records of 90 Surviving Comfort Women: Crimes of the Japanese Invasion of China during WWII

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Records of 90 Surviving Comfort Women: Crimes of the Japanese Invasion of China during WWII

 

Author: Li Xiaofang

Order No. 1211

ISBN-13: 9781622461059

ISBN-10: 1622461053

Binding: Paperback

Publisher: Homa & Sekey Books

Pub Year: 2023

Language: English

Size: 6.5 x 9.5

Page: 282

Price: $39.95. You pay only $23.97 (after 40% discount).

 

About the Book

 

In the next 40 days, I was gang-raped by the Japanese soldiers every day, sometimes one in, one out, taking turns; during the day there were usually five or six devils, at night there were at least ten, sometimes as many as fifty or sixty devils raping me. Here, I was most afraid of darkness. When it was about to get dark, my whole body was shivering and I almost fainted from their torture.

— Zhao Runmei, born in 1924, of Nanchun Village, Xiyan Town, Yuxian County, Shanxi Province.

 

The Japanese soldiers pinned me down on the bed and tried to rape me. I resisted desperately while cursing them. The Japanese soldiers got angry and hit me hard with the butt of their rifles. One Japanese soldier raised the butt of his rifle above his head and hit me hard on my hipbone, and with a loud “gah” sound, my hipbone was broken. The Japanese soldiers gang-raped me while I was unconscious, and took several girls from the village, including Guo Aiyu, Liang Shuilan and Wang Shuangjin, to the Baijiagou gunhouse.

  — Liu Haiyun, born in 1922, is a native of Shangyi Village, Duanliu Town, Qin County, Shanxi Province.

 

Later, when I was so badly treated by the Japanese soldiers that I could not move, the Japanese soldiers called my family to carry me home for treatment. Before I could fully recover, the Japanese soldiers took me to the barracks and raped me again. In this way, they took me in three times, and I was tortured to the point that I was no longer a human being.

 — Chen Liancun, of the Li ethnicity, born in 1926, is a native of Maoli Village, Jiamao Town, Baoting County, Hainan Province.

 

 

图书介绍

 

This book records almost all the surviving victims of Japanese sexual violence in China during World War II, as well as some of the survivors in Korea and North Korea. The book provides an immersive look at the atrocious crimes of the Japanese army and the tragic fate of the women who suffered from the Japanese invaders.

Records of 90 Surviving Comfort Women is a book of blood and tears of the survivors of the Japanese invading forces’ comfort women system during World War II. With hundreds of pictures and historical photographs of the victims’ living conditions, the book is the most detailed record of surviving comfort women to date, and provides important historical information for the study of the world’s comfort women, as well as a powerful exposé of the crimes against humanity committed by Japanese militarism against the people of China and other victimized countries during World War II, when “comfort women” were forcibly recruited.

 

作者介绍

 

Li Xiaofang is an independent scholar of investigations and studies of the atrocities committed by Japanese invaders in China. He was a special correspondent of The People’s Front of the Nanjing Military Region and China Pictures of the Xinhua News Agency. He is now a special researcher with the Harbin Academy of Social Sciences and Hunan University of Arts and Science, and a member of the China Photographers Association. Records of 130 Survivors of the Nanjing Massacre, and Records of 90 Surviving Comfort Women and many other large-scale documentary albums of him have been published.

 

Table of Contents

 

Preface 001

 

Overview 001

 

Part One: The Surviving Comfort Women of China 011

 

Chapter 1: The Surviving Comfort Women of Nanjing 015

Chapter 2: The Surviving Comfort Women in Shanxi Province 027

Section A: The Surviving Comfort Women of Yuxian County 030

Section B: The Surviving Comfort Women of Qin County 080

Section C: The Surviving Comfort Women of Wuxiang County 119

Chapter 3: The Surviving Comfort Women of Dongning Fortress, Heilongjiang Province 150

Chapter 4: The Surviving Comfort Women of Hainan Province 164

Chapter 5: The Surviving Comfort Women in Guangxi 219

Chapter 6: The Surviving Comfort Women of Taiwan 228

 

Part Two: The Surviving Comfort Women of the Korean Peninsula 241

 

Chapter 7: The Surviving Comfort Women of South Korea 245

Chapter 8: The Surviving Comfort Women of North Korea 294

 

References 306

Postscript 308