Comfort women: The continuing saga of the Filipina

• Main Author: Atutubo, Janet C.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2001
• Subjects: Comfort women > Philippines; Women; Filipino; World War; 1939-1945 > Women; Asian History
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/2924
• Institution: De La Salle University

This paper is a historical study of the Filipina comfort women. Twenty elderly women were interviewed on their lives before, during and after the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. The interviews emphasized on their capture, ordeal and escape from the Japanese garrisons or locations of captivity. The Japanese political, educational and military institutions were also analyzed. Likewise, this study also relates the changes brought about by their public disclosure of their wartime experience in the light of the efforts of the organization, LILA Filipina. The campaign to attract women who were once sexual slaves of the Japanese Imperial Army started in 1992 and since then, various activities were undertaken to draw and sustain public awareness in the comfort women's struggle towards the recognition of their plight. This study is updated with the responses of both the Japanese and Philippine governments. This also presents the stand of various international institutions on the issue.This study is undertaken in order to present another dimension of the Pacific War--that of the women noncombatants who were garrisoned and raped by the Japanese soldiers.