Tigermedia - Forgotten Witnesses: Gender-Based Violence in Asia During World War II
Forgotten Witnesses: Gender-Based Violence in Asia During World War II
Date: April 13th, 2016
Duration:
1h:36m:26s
Dr. Jimin Kim and Ms. Chang-Jin Lee introduce the topic of sexual enslavement during World War II. Focusing on the experiences of "comfort women," they attend to the more than 200,000 Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, Indonesian, Dutch, and Filipino women who were kidnapped or deceived and forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army. Dr. Kim, the Program Director of the Asian Social Justice Internship Program that is co-hosted by Korean American Civic Empowerment (KACE) and the KHRCA at Queensborough Community College, is an expert in modern Korean history and the history of U.S.-Korea-Japan relations. Ms. Lee is a Korean born visual artist whose documentary film, Comfort Women Wanted, features interviews from "comfort women" survivors and a former Japanese soldier.