A Tokyo museum has published a book about wartime sex slaves aimed at enhancing public awareness following a series of remarks by politicians demonstrating their ignorance over the "comfort women" issue.
The book is based on a 2007 exhibition at the Women's Active Museum largely aimed at junior high school students. Information panels explained how females were kidnapped and forced to provide sex for Japanese soldiers and work in the wartime brothels known as "comfort stations."
"We organized the exhibition to hand down the history of wartime sex slavery at a time when references to the issue almost disappeared from junior high school textbooks," said Eriko Ikeda, director of the museum that is better known as WAM. "But we were surprised that even adults, including influential politicians, do not understand the problem accurately."