Ahn Sehong’s Photos of ‘Comfort Women’ in China

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Forgotten Women Victims of World War II

Ahn Sehong has been documenting the plight of Korean women stuck in China decades after the Japanese Army forced them into prostitution during World War II.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/a-wars-cold-comfort-in-china/

Ahn Sehong had to go to China to recover a vanishing — and painful — part of Korea’s wartime history. Visiting small villages and overcoming barriers of language and distrust, he documented the tales of women — some barely teenagers — who had been forced into sexual slavery during World War II by the Japanese Army.