The 24 art works, on display at the Women's Active Museum on War and Peace in Shinjuku Ward, were done by former sex slaves who live at Nanum House, which means shared house in Korean, near Seoul. They studied art under volunteer teachers. One painting,"Innocence Stolen" depicts a naked girl lying beside a Japanese soldier with her hands covering her face. It is from the artis's memory of being forcibly brought to a mountain by a Imperial Japanese soldier and raped. Historians estimate Japan forced up to 200,000 women, from the Korean Peninsula, China, Taiwan, the Philippines and other parts of Asia into sexual slavery.
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"Sex Slaves" Art Exhibited
An art exhibition opened in Tokyo of paintings by former "comfort women," depicting the pain they suffered as sex slaves for the Imperial Japanese Army.
The 24 art works, on display at the Women's Active Museum on War and Peace in Shinjuku Ward, were done by former sex slaves who live at Nanum House, which means shared house in Korean, near Seoul. They studied art under volunteer teachers. One painting,"Innocence Stolen" depicts a naked girl lying beside a Japanese soldier with her hands covering her face. It is from the artis's memory of being forcibly brought to a mountain by a Imperial Japanese soldier and raped. Historians estimate Japan forced up to 200,000 women, from the Korean Peninsula, China, Taiwan, the Philippines and other parts of Asia into sexual slavery.
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The 24 art works, on display at the Women's Active Museum on War and Peace in Shinjuku Ward, were done by former sex slaves who live at Nanum House, which means shared house in Korean, near Seoul. They studied art under volunteer teachers. One painting,"Innocence Stolen" depicts a naked girl lying beside a Japanese soldier with her hands covering her face. It is from the artis's memory of being forcibly brought to a mountain by a Imperial Japanese soldier and raped. Historians estimate Japan forced up to 200,000 women, from the Korean Peninsula, China, Taiwan, the Philippines and other parts of Asia into sexual slavery.
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