Establishment of the Comfort Women System
Chinese and Malayan girls forcibly taken from
Penang by the Japanese to work as "comfort girls" for the troops
Studio portrait of
Jan Ruff O"Herne, taken shortly before she, her mother and sisters, as well as thousands of other
Dutch women and children were interned by the
Japanese Imperial Army in
Ambarawa. Over the following months, O"Herne, along with six other Dutch women, were repeatedly raped, day and night, by Japanese military personnel
[15]Japanese military prostitution
Chinese and Malayan girls forcibly taken from Penang by the Japanese to work as "comfort girls" for the troops
Studio portrait of Jan Ruff O"Herne, taken shortly before she, her mother and sisters, as well as thousands of other Dutch women and children were interned by the Japanese Imperial Army in Ambarawa. Over the following months, O"Herne, along with six other Dutch women, were repeatedly raped, day and night, by Japanese military personnel[15]