I have two missing aunts—Japanese took them somewhere, but they never came home.
My grandmother was waiting for them to come home until she died. They never did.
My grandma died in 1984. We did not know what happened to my two missing aunts. After my grandma’s death, some Korean women who served as comfort women revealed their horrible experiences during their ordeal. From this revealing testimony as the starting point, we have learned a bit by bit, little by little about young Korean women who were used sex slaves called “comfort women” or “sprit women” for Japanese soldiers.
They were used—at least some people believed—to give powers and spiritual energies to Heavenly Japanese soldiers in Shanghai, China and Taiwan when Japan was carrying on its war of continental invasion from Manchuria into mid-China via Korea as well as the time of having wars against America. Historian Yoshiaki Yoshimi, who conducted the first academic study on the topic which brought the issue out into the open, estimated the number to be between 80,000 and 200,000. A majority of the comfort women were from Korea, though others were recruited or kidnapped from China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Burma, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
I want to know about my grandma’s two missing daughters—my missing aunts. I want to know what really had happened to them. I want to know more about my two missing aunts because I do not even know them. I do not even know their face. I do not even know how they die. I want to know more about my two missing aunts because they maybe still alive in somewhere. I want to know more about my two missing aunts because I do not even know if they were kidnapped to be comfort women. The only thing we knew was my two missing aunts were in the truck driven by Japanese and taken somewhere. But they never came back home.
Our family had no ideas about my two missing aunts. I have not found any trace of my two missing aunts, but have found traces of numerous other survivors who could have been with my missing aunts. My desire to know my two missing aunts can be partially fulfilled through survivors’ testimonies. In the name of research, I searched and read testimonies from survivors because I may find stories from survivors who could have been with my two aunts.
Some of whom were only 13 to 16 years old. After being either laboring slaves or sex slaves, these victims could not escape from their brutal conditions in a heavily guarded place.
At this moments, many young girls are raped and sold into the slavery. Our females who are forced into sex slaves experience not only sexual violence but also institutionalized racism. This included my two aunts who were kidnapped by the Heavenly Emperor’s army. My grandmother was waiting for them to come home until she died. They never did.
Many unimaginable brutalities have been committed by men—born of women’s wombs—but raised by the whole world. Thus, our uncorrupted female ancestors were the victims of greed-incited violence.
Many victimes were beating to death. Many were starved to death. Many burning houses with live innocent people inside in their houses while serving sex slaves.
We need to stop these unimaginable brutalities. But my voice is so small, and I am a little person. Please help me to stop abusing uncorrupted people.
My grandmother was waiting for them to come home until she died. They never did.
My grandma died in 1984. We did not know what happened to my two missing aunts. After my grandma’s death, some Korean women who served as comfort women revealed their horrible experiences during their ordeal. From this revealing testimony as the starting point, we have learned a bit by bit, little by little about young Korean women who were used sex slaves called “comfort women” or “sprit women” for Japanese soldiers.
They were used—at least some people believed—to give powers and spiritual energies to Heavenly Japanese soldiers in Shanghai, China and Taiwan when Japan was carrying on its war of continental invasion from Manchuria into mid-China via Korea as well as the time of having wars against America. Historian Yoshiaki Yoshimi, who conducted the first academic study on the topic which brought the issue out into the open, estimated the number to be between 80,000 and 200,000. A majority of the comfort women were from Korea, though others were recruited or kidnapped from China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Burma, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
I want to know about my grandma’s two missing daughters—my missing aunts. I want to know what really had happened to them. I want to know more about my two missing aunts because I do not even know them. I do not even know their face. I do not even know how they die. I want to know more about my two missing aunts because they maybe still alive in somewhere. I want to know more about my two missing aunts because I do not even know if they were kidnapped to be comfort women. The only thing we knew was my two missing aunts were in the truck driven by Japanese and taken somewhere. But they never came back home.
Our family had no ideas about my two missing aunts. I have not found any trace of my two missing aunts, but have found traces of numerous other survivors who could have been with my missing aunts. My desire to know my two missing aunts can be partially fulfilled through survivors’ testimonies. In the name of research, I searched and read testimonies from survivors because I may find stories from survivors who could have been with my two aunts.
Some of whom were only 13 to 16 years old. After being either laboring slaves or sex slaves, these victims could not escape from their brutal conditions in a heavily guarded place.
At this moments, many young girls are raped and sold into the slavery. Our females who are forced into sex slaves experience not only sexual violence but also institutionalized racism. This included my two aunts who were kidnapped by the Heavenly Emperor’s army. My grandmother was waiting for them to come home until she died. They never did.
Many unimaginable brutalities have been committed by men—born of women’s wombs—but raised by the whole world. Thus, our uncorrupted female ancestors were the victims of greed-incited violence.
Many victimes were beating to death. Many were starved to death. Many burning houses with live innocent people inside in their houses while serving sex slaves.
We need to stop these unimaginable brutalities. But my voice is so small, and I am a little person. Please help me to stop abusing uncorrupted people.
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