nprnews_____ = ||| lubuntu at wor1 38Z1|||Why These World War II Sex Slaves Are Still Demanding Justice||| kickerpage = |||no kicker pagenpr for NPRNEWS||| summarynpr = |||The Japanese army forced some 200, 000 women into sexual slavery during World War II. They were known as “comfort women.” This special report tells the stories of the survivors in the Philippines.

Pilar Quilantang Galang was one of more than 100 girls and women raped by members of the Japanese Imperial Army in the village of Mapaniqui on Nov. 23, 1944. She was 9 years old at the time. Even now, in her 80s, when she sees the ruins of the “Red House” (at rear of photo), where the rapes happened, she says, “I feel like I’m losing my mind. I wish it would be destroyed.”

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Why These World War II Sex Slaves Are Still Demanding Justice

The Japanese army forced some 200,000 women into sexual slavery during World War II. They were known as “comfort women.” This special report tells the stories of the survivors in the Philippines.