Documentary Recounts Postwar Sexual Abuse of Japanese Women

The Kurokawa Settler Community, whose members moved to what is now China’s Songyuan, Jilin Province, in 1941. (© TV Asahi)

Location of the former entertainment quarters. (© TV Asahi)

Yasue Yoshiko, who recounted the reality of “sexual entertainment” at the Manchukuo Settler Peace Memorial Hall (Achi, Nagano). (© TV Asahi)

Satō Harue in 2019. (© TV Asahi)

Matsubara Fumie, director of the documentary film Kurokawa no onnatachi. (© Nippon.com)

An epitaph (right) installed alongside the “Monument to the Maidens” in November 2018. (© TV Asahi)

Fujii Hiroyuki, chair of the Settler Community Survivors Society, spent many months preparing the text of the epitaph. (© TV Asahi)

Yasue Reiko, who was interviewed in 2019 on the condition of anonymity. (© TV Asahi)

Yasue Reiko appeared relaxed when she met with Fujii. (© TV Asahi)

A lecture at the Manchukuo Settler Peace Memorial Hall in 2013. Yasue Yoshiko, seated, is second from left. (© TV Asahi)

Yasue Kikumi’s affection for Satō Harue, at right, is touching. (© TV Asahi)

Satō Harue with film director Matsubara. (© TV Asahi)