Japanese Female Prisoners

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Bandoengan, Java, 1942. Jan O'Herne shortly before she was interned with her mother and two sisters along with other Dutch citizens by the Japanese Imperial Army after its capture of Java on 8 March 1942. The ten most attractive girls, including Jan O'Herne, were selected by Japanese officers and taken to a house surrounded by barbed wire in Selarang. It was military brothel. Over the next four months the girls, who were all virgins, were repeatedly raped and beaten.

    

     

Koepang, Timor 1945-10-02. Timforce. Twenty six Javanese girls who were liberated at Koepang from Japanese brothels. Just prior to their release the Japanese issued them with Red Cross arm bands in an attempt to camouflage the foul manner in which these girls had been used. Young lady in chief of the girls is Komoriah. She is holding the doll she kept throughout her enforced stay in Japanese hands. (Photographer K. B. Davis)

 

Comfort women sex slaves survivors

 

Comfort Women being transported

              

Soldiers waiting in line for "Comfort Women"

HIGH CLASS CHINESE PROSTITUTES used by HIGH RANKING JAPANESE ARMY OFFICERS in MANCHURIA -- A Less Common Image from Old China

by Okinawa Soba