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Comfort women were women and girls who were forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army in occupied territories before and during World War II and by the South Korean military during the Vietnam War.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=In Remembrance of Wartime “Comfort Women” )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Scars of War: Vietnam Comfort Women )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=War and Women: The Vietnam War (Lai Dai Han) )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Korean Comfort Women Exposed )〕 The name "comfort women" is a translation of the Japanese euphemism ''ianfu'' (慰安婦) and the similar Korean term ''wianbu'' (위안부). ''Ianfu'' is a euphemism for "prostitute(s)". Estimates vary as to how many women were involved, with numbers ranging from as low as 20,000〔 to as high as 360,000 to 410,000, in Chinese sources; the exact numbers are still being researched and debated. Many of the women were from occupied countries, including Korea, China, and the Philippines,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Women and World War II – Comfort Women )〕 although women from Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan (then a Japanese dependency), Indonesia (then the Dutch East Indies), East Timor (then Portuguese Timor), and other Japanese-occupied territories were used for military "comfort stations". Stations were located in Japan, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, then Malaya, Thailand, Burma, New Guinea, Hong Kong, Macau, and French Indochina.〔.〕 A smaller number of women of European origin from the Netherlands and Australia were also involved. According to testimony, young women from countries in Imperial Japanese custody were abducted from their homes. In many cases, women were also lured with promises of work in factories or restaurants; once recruited, the women were incarcerated in comfort stations in foreign lands.〔; ; ; .〕 == Establishment of the Comfort Women System == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Comfort women」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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