A Chinese solider examines bodies of Korean comfort women killed by Japanese soldiers at Tenchong Castle in China’s Yunnan Province in Sept. 1944. Allied soldiers
Documents and video footage have been found showing massacres of Korean comfort women by the Japanese military shortly before the end of World War II. During the South Korea-China-Japan Comfort Women International Conference held at Seoul City Hall on Feb. 27, the city of Seoul and the Seoul National University (SNU) Human Rights Center made public for the first time footage of the aftermath of a massacre of Korean comfort women. The footage was released after a team of researchers led by Jung Jin-seong on behalf of the Seoul city government and the SNU Human Rights Center uncovered and studied materials during the course of two visits to the US National Archives and Records Administration in 2016 and 2017.
who the night before had overrun Japanese lines
Articles appearing at the time reported that Japanese troops had massacred comfort women, such as one that appeared in the Sept. 18, 1944, edition of the Shaodangbao, the official gazette of China’s Nationalist Party, known as the Kuomintang, but this is the first time that footage has been made public. This footage flatly contradicts the Japanese government’s denial of the forced mobilization and massacre of the comfort women.The footage shows a Chinese soldier, apparently on a burial detail, looking at naked corpses and then removing the socks off one of them. Smoke is rising from one corner of the frame.
