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Comfort women

Blind man's bluff

DAN-CHYI CHUA

A 79-year-old woman triumphs over a revisionist historian's assault.

"We remember the suffering of the individual women who were subjected to sexual violence by the Japanese military, lament the victims of wartime sexual violence throughout the world, pray for a peaceful world without war." These words are inscribed in 12 languages on a cenotaph unveiled on Japan's Okinawa island.


Apology for a rape

LEE HAN SHIH

The Nanjing Massacre is a sore point in Sino-Japanese relations and something has to be done about it soon.

nanjing massacre

A Sino-Japanese time bomb is ticking. If nothing is done to defuse it, it will explode in December 2007, when China commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Rape of Nanjing.


No comfort for the women (Part 1 of 2)

DAN-CHYI CHUA

For 50 years, Jan Huff O'Herne clung on to a secret she could not tell her family because she was too ashamed.

Whether it was her birthday or Mother's Day, O’Herne’s two daughters knew never to bring her flowers; they just didn't know why. Then one day in 1992, by the time they were all grown up, they finally uncovered the reason through a 30-page letter from their mother.


No comfort for the women (Part 2 of 2)

DAN-CHYI CHUA

For 50 years, Jan Huff O'Herne clung on to a secret she could not tell her family because she was too ashamed

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Because of the trauma her body had gone through, O’Herne suffered four miscarriages and had to have a major operation before she could bring a baby to term.