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Stories that Make History

Genocide and Mass Violence in the Age of Extremes

Edited by

Frank Jacob

Volume

Stories that Make History

The Experience and Memories of the Japanese Military Comfort Girls-Women

Edited by

The Research Team of the War

The Korean Council for the Women Drafted

Womens Human Rights Center

ISBN 9783110670295

e-ISBN (PDF) 9783110670523

e-ISBN (EPUB) 9783110670615

Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de.

2020 Angella Son, published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Funded by the Korean Council for Justice & Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan.

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Contents

1. Translators Preface
2. Acknowledgments
3. Preface
4. I Never Dreamt, Not in My Wildest Dreams, That So Many Soldiers Would Come to Me Like That
   1. The Silk Factory
   2. The First Customer
   3. Scary Sunday
   4. Backscratching
   5. Rat Poison
   6. First Love
   7. Farewell
   8. An Old Man
   9. A Shaman
   10. Tiresome Men
   11. Investigation
   12. Resentment
   13. Interviewers Commentary: Self-Censorship and Lies
5. You Japs, Without Your War, Why Would We Have Gone There?
   1. The Four-Eyed Mr. Kim
   2. Asama Maru
   3. Kagetsu
   4. Bizarre Bastards
   5. The White Pill
   6. Suicide Attempt
   7. Talking in Whispers
   8. Destiny
   9. An Assumed Name
   10. Deep Rooted Sickness
   11. Compensation
   12. Interviewers Commentary: Ariadnes Thread
6. It Is Like a Dream That I Survived. But an Utterly Terrifying Nightmare of a Dream
   1. Lie
   2. Collecting Cheonyeos
   3. A Faraway Country
   4. Semarang
   5. Ruthless Bastards
   6. Addiction
   7. Quinine
   8. Concentration Camp
   9. Alcohol Smell
   10. An Arranged Marriage
   11. Two Sons
   12. Old Man
   13. Woolhwabyung
   14. Interviewers Commentary: Nightmare
7. When I Try to Speak of What Is Buried in My Heart, It Feels Like My Heart Is Bursting
   1. The Youngest Daughter
   2. A Policeman with a Sword
   3. Changchun
   4. The Life of a Comfort Girl-Woman
   5. Mr. Kim
   6. First Husband
   7. A Nurse
   8. Betrayal
   9. Return
   10. Resentment
   11. Interviewers Commentary: For the Country of Kang Il-chul
8. How Can I Avenge Myself?
   1. Escape
   2. Weighing the Weight
   3. Earthen House
   4. Soldiers
   5. Opium
   6. Syphilis
   7. Liberation
   8. The Return Home
   9. American Army Unit
   10. Making a Living
   11. My Family Members
   12. Hope
   13. Interviewers Commentary: Dry Cough
9. That History, At First, I Was Ashamed About It, So I Was Not Able to Talk Very Clearly
   1. Her Passion for Learning
   2. On That Day
   3. Airport
   4. A Tin-Roofed House
   5. Bruise
   6. Comrade Shim
   7. First Marriage
   8. Forlorn Parting
   9. Second Husband
   10. My Poor Son
   11. Midwife
   12. Attempt to Return
   13. Interviewers Commentary: Lee Ok-seons Homecoming
10. Never, Ever Forget
    1. A Spring
    2. Tatami Room
    3. Cast
    4. Yoto Furimo
    5. Being Treated like a Criminal
    6. Hatanaka Chutaicho
    7. Meeting and Separation
    8. Homecoming
    9. Lingering Attachment
       1. Han
    10. Interviewers Commentary: A Pair of Glasses and a Golden Watch
11. Do Not Ask Me About My Past Life. It Pains My Heart
    1. Old Maid
    2. Gwonbeon
    3. Coverless Train
    4. Asahi Shokudo
    5. Entertainment Performers
    6. Women from the Same Hometown
    7. Armband
    8. A Dog Hole
    9. Peddling
    10. A Noble Man
    11. Sad Heart
    12. Interviewers Commentary: The Memory of Sad Times
12. You Come and Give Us Compensation and Beg Us for Forgiveness
    1. Cotton Factory
    2. Running Away
    3. Singapore
    4. The Japs
    5. Good Men
    6. Syphilis
    7. Dead Friend
    8. Back Home
    9. Gossip
    10. Food Business
    11. Aftereffects
    12. A Boy
    13. Registration
    14. Weeping
    15. Interviewers Commentary: Dry Tears
13. To Whom Shall I Say This? Does Anyone in Heaven or on Earth Know What I Went Through?
    1. Draft Notice
    2. Stable-Like Comfort Facilities
    3. Accessories
    4. Mental Disturbance
    5. Homecoming
    6. Relationship
    7. Registration
    8. Nightmare
    9. Redress and Me Today
    10. Interviewers Commentary: In Search of Lost Memories
14. There Was Not a Thing I Could Do that I Wanted
    1. Symptoms of Doubt
    2. Licensed Quarters
    3. Police Officer Lim
    4. Business
    5. Name
    6. Yamada Factory
    7. The House of Prostitution
    8. Meat
    9. Bookkeeping
    10. Refugee
    11. Shame
    12. Interviewers Commentary: The Registration Certificate of Comfort Girls-Women
15. It Passed Along With the Blow of Wind and Waves of Water, Time Has
    1. A Penalty
    2. Yokone Surgery
    3. Going Back Home
    4. Back to China
    5. Tokiwa
    6. Violence
    7. Contest
    8. An Official Gazette
    9. Liberation
    10. Housekeeping
    11. Uterine Surgery
    12. Living Together
    13. Meeting My Son
    14. Secret Revealed
    15. Wish
    16. Interviewers Commentary: The Story of Gil Won-ok at the End of Many Twists and Turns
16. The Story of Failed Interviews: The Silence of Cho Yi Seon, the Secret of Kim Dduk Bbal
17. Some Works on Comfort Girls-Women

1. V
2. VI
3. VII
4. VIII
5. IX
6. X
7. XI
8. XII
9. XIII
10. XIV
11. XV
12. XVI
13. XVII
14. XVIII
15. XIX
16. XX
17. XXI
18. XXII
19. XXIII

Dedicated to

all halmonisbeloved grandmothersandour comfort girls-women

others suffering from sexual and war violence in the world

you and I desiring and taking action for the respect for human dignity for all

Translators Preface

Fifteen Years Later

Among the estimated 50,000 to 200,000 Korean young girls and women who were mobilized as sex slaves for the Japanese military, only 240 of them were registered as comfort girls-women with the South Korean government by the end of 2018, and only twenty are still alive today (as of August 31, 2019). Most of them are in their late 80s and 90s. Out of the twelve comfort girls-women whose stories are shared in this volume, only three are still alive today. The halmonis Kang Il-chul, Lee Ok-seon and Gil Won-ok are in their early 90s. It is dreadful to imagine how much of this living his(her)tory will still be alive about ten years from now. It is with this sense of urgency in mind that this book, which is a translation of the original volume into English, is created, a response to a void in these published stories in languages other than Korean. This book is an effort to preserve and make their stories available to the world and an invitation to encourage and ask readers to join in the act of justice and compassion for

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