TAIPEI – The last known Taiwanese “comfort woman” from World War 2 has died aged 92, says a Taipei anti-sex trafficking group.
“Comfort women” refers to those forced to work in the Japanese army’s wartime brothels between 1932 and 1945.
Activists estimate 200,000 people from the occupied territories were forced into sexual slavery, including about 2,000 women in Taiwan.
The woman, who did not wish to be named, died on May 10, said activists.
The Taipei Women’s Rescue Foundation said her family had permitted the news of her death to be known after a private funeral.
Women forced into Imperial Japan’s WW2 sexual slavery came from its occupied territories in Korea, China, Taiwan and the Philippines among other areas. (BBC)
