China, SK to protect sex slavery documents
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Experts from China and South Korea have agreed to strengthen cooperation in protecting documents on women forced into sex slavery by Japanese troops and to apply for their registration on the Memory of the World, a UNESCO program to preserve documentary heritage.
Su Zhiliang, director of the sex slave research center at Shanghai Normal University, said that experts are collecting materials on the issue before making their proposal to the commission. “The proposal will help preserve the historic records and provide materials for people and experts in the future to understand, research, rethink and condemn,” Su said on the sidelines of the just-concluded forum on sex slaves held in Shanghai.
Jointly held by Shanghai Normal University and Sung Kyun Kwan University, the forum attracted experts from China, South Korea and Japan to discuss strengthening cooperation and research.
“Because of misleading by Japanese officials and media, many ordinary people, especially the younger generation, have grown suspicious toward history. However, denying history is unwise,” said Matsumoto Kan from a Japanese non-governmental group.
Government archives, oral records of victims and witness testimonies all prove the Japanese government and military’s role in abducting, trafficking and forcing women to provide sex for Japanese soldiers.
“Of those Chinese women who identified themselves as former sex slaves, fewer than 20 are alive,” said Su. “It’s the final moment for us to demand justice and to preserve the historic materials.”
Historians estimate that 200,000 women were forced into sexual servitude by Japanese forces in World War II.
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