Comfort Women Resource Center

Together with UCLA Center for Korean Studies, we have launched a digital archive with translated annotations on primary sources and documentary evidence of Imperial Japan’s wartime sexual slavery and human trafficking system through WWII.

https://international.ucla.edu/cks/care

This is the first such archive in the U.S. with English-translated and English-language sources.

We will be adding many more sources to this archive throughout the year.  

You can watch our introductory panel discussion about the archive with UC Irvine Law School, the American Law Center of 고려대학교 (Korea University in Seoul), and UCLA Center for Korean Studies here [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6YXi9lUAx8].

This project is heavily indebted to:

• The Research Institute for Japanese Military Sexual Slavery in South Korea
• Northeast Asian History Foundation
• Prof. Jin-sung Chung of Seoul National University, with support from the City of Seoul
• Korean advisers Dr. Hye-in han, Byeong-joo hwang, and Sang-kyu Kim
• Japanese advisers Mina Watanabe of Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace (WAM Tokyo) and Prof. Akihisa Matsuno
• U.S. advisers Profs. Peipei Qiu, Alexis Dudden, and Bonnie Oh
• Prof. Kyung-shin Park from the American Law Center of 고려대학교 (Korea University in Seoul)