'Comfort woman' suing Japan dies at 89
- By Li Jingrong
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| Zhang Xiantu, a "comfort woman" who had sued Japan for compensation for her miserable sufferings as a sex slave during World War II, died on Nov. 12 in her hometown in Yuxian County of Shanxi Province at the age of 89. [Photo / Chinanews.com] |
Zhang Xiantu, a "comfort woman" who had sued Japan for compensation for her miserable sufferings as a sex slave during World War II, died on Nov. 12 in her hometown in Yuxian County of Shanxi Province at the age of 89, Chinanews.com reported.
Zhang was one of the county's 16 "comfort women" who, abducted by the invading Japanese military to provide sexual services to their soldiers, had been suing the Japanese government, demanding an apology and compensation from the 1990s. However, the other 15 had died one after another before Zhang.
In an interview with Xinhua News Agency in September last year, Zhang said that in 1942, she was taken away and locked up in a Japanese camp, where she was raped by at least 20 Japanese soldiers every day. She was only 16 years of age at the time.
Zhang said that nightmare had haunted her for decades. However, she had never received the Japanese apology she demanded.
Statistics from Xinhua show thousands of Asian women were forced into sexual enslavement by the Japanese military during World War II, including an estimated 200,000 Chinese. In Shanxi Province alone, 126 former "comfort women" are on record.
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