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Contents
Preface 7
Japanese military sexual slavery 8
Prologue 16
Stories of "comfort women" victims delivered through testimonies, documents, photographs, film footage, and memories 17
I. Korean "comfort women" in Myitkyina 20
1. Story of those who could not speak for themselves 21
2. Busan, July 10, 1942 22
People gathered in Busan Harbor 22
Forced mobilization of "comfort women" 23
Forced mobilization of "comfort women" discussed in war tribunals 27
To a faraway southern country 29
3. Myitkyina, August 10, 1944 31
A country named Burma 31
In Myitkyina 34
Captured women 36
4. India, May 17, 1946 38
Arirang of farewell 38
POW camp, interrogation, and camp again 46
On board back to Korea 49
Ⅱ. "Comfort women" in the Battle of Tengchong and Songshan 51
1. China's Yunnan Province: End of the battle 52
2. Life goes on 55
Survived 56
Escaped and rescued 59
Lost lives 62
3. Meeting of "comfort women" 63
Transfer from Tengchong and Songshan 64
Interrogation in Songshan 65
POW camp in Kunming 66
Records of Koji Ariyoshi, a Japanese American 67
4. Park Young-shim and Yoon Kyung-ae, the only two witnesses 70
5. Vanishing places, sharpening pain 72
Ⅲ. A photo of "Truk" Island spoke to us : Lee Bok-soon and Korean "comfort women" in the Chuuk Islands 74
1. Passenger lists, photos, and signals 75
368 passengers, 26 Korean women 76
Female passengers from Chuuk Islands in photographs 78
2. Photo with words: A woman named Lee Bok-soon (1926-2008) 81
Lee Bok-soon, a "comfort woman" victim of "Dorakudo" 81
Searching for the history of a woman who lived through colonization and war: Lee Bok-soon and Hitokawa Fukujun 83
3. Japanese Military comfort stations and "comfort women" victims in the Chuuk Islands 87
Shirota Suzuko's words of "comfort women" in the Chuuk Islands 90
4. The way back 93
5. Story continues with life 96
IV. "Comfort women" in Okinawa and the scars of war 97
1. I survived, so I tried to live 98
2. The Battle of Okinawa and Korean "comfort women" 99
A typhoon of steel and hell on earth 99
Comfort stations in Okinawa and Korean "comfort women" 102
3. Every day was war, so war was also life 103
War started on that day 103
Different last moments 107
4. Ongoing life and never-ending war 110
5. You and I – Keeping memories 112
Scars of Okinawa and the remaining memories 112
Stories will be told through me, you, and us 116
Epilogue 118
From "herstory" to "ourstory": History that writes the future 119
Notes 120
Artworks 124
Exhibition views 131
Appendix 140