Japan Times. Jeff Kingston, Apr. 22, 2017.
As I explained last week, I recently met former “comfort woman” Lee Yong-soo, 89, at a
rally in Seoul held at the site where the contentious comfort woman statue is located.
Afterwards I joined her on a trip to the House of Sharing, where 10 other former
comfort women are currently residing.
During our journey we conversed mostly in Japanese about her hellish experiences in a
Japanese military brothel, with some help from a Korean interpreter. It is a poignant
saga of abduction from her village at age 16 and ending up on an air base in Taiwan,
where she initially resisted her rapists. They beat and tortured her (with electricity) until
she succumbed.