1. Although she was eventually taken in by a group of missionaries, the ghosts from her days as a comfort woman continued to haunt her imagination. 2. Although telling her story is painful, she said she and other former comfort women must get the word out to bring justice. 3. After going public, Kim left her family and moved into the House of Sharing, a refuge for comfort women founded by the Buddhist monk Hye-Jin. 4. But Kim survived, unlike many comfort women, who were killed or died of disease. 5. Comfort women is a euphemism for women who worked at military brothels. 6. It is also a tragic, horrifying page-turner, whose evocation of the pathetic comfort women and other wartime victims is unforgettable. 7. The comfort women resisted, she said, but were powerless to escape. 8. The protests this year about Japanese aggression and use of comfort women in World War II stem from a new text by Nobukatsu Fujioka. 9. The tribunal has no legal power to exact reparations for the survivors among these so-called comfort women. 10. Too young to use sexually, Soon Hyo takes care of the other comfort women. |