[Asia Economy Reporter Yujin Cho] An online English archive of historical materials related to the comfort women will be established for the first time at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to properly inform frontline teachers and the education sector in the United States about the history of comfort women.
On the 18th (local time), CARE (Comfort Women Action for Redress and Education), a U.S. human rights organization for comfort women victims, announced that it will open an online English archive on the UCLA Korean Studies Institute website as early as July.
The archive will feature various original documents proving the historical fact that during World War II, the Japanese military institutionalized military brothels, systematically operated them, and enslaved victims as sex slaves, along with English explanatory materials that make the information easy to understand.
Kim Hyunjung, CEO of CARE, stated, "Although primary sources on comfort women existed in various places, there was no English archive properly informing American society. This is the first archive to collect evidence proving the Japanese military's responsibility for comfort women, translate it into English, and provide explanations."
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