Photo exhibition featuring "Korean Comfort Women" opens in Osaka

Osaka, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- A special photo exhibition focused on Korean "comfort women" who were forced into wartime sexual slavery by the Japanese military system started Thursday in the western Japanese city of Osaka.

The exhibition, organized by South Korean photographer An Se Hong and his supporters, was held at a gallery room located in the city's major commercial district with the aim to broadly inform of the brutal nature of wartime history, which was caused by the Japanese Army's involvement during World War II.

According to the organizer, a total of 120 local people came to the exhibition site to see more than 40 monochrome pictures of nine elderly women, now living alone in China where the surviving women had to settle down after the war.

An said that all pictures shown were taken in five Chinese provinces and two cities, Beijing and Shanghai, by himself between 2001 and 2005.

The Osaka exhibition will continue to next Tuesday. Enditem

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