Japan’s Shame over Apology

Wu Hsiu-mei, a Taiwanese maid who was handed to Japanese officers by her boss, was forced to have sex with more than 20 Japanese soldiers per day for almost a year. She had multiple abortions and became sterile prematurely. Gil Won-ok, a Korean teenager thrust into sex slavery, caught syphilis and developed tumors in her uterus that were abruptly removed by a Japanese military doctor. "I’ve felt dead inside since I was 15," said Gil, who, like many other "comfort women," is now unable to bear children. From 20 April 2007 AsiaWeek.com