Comfort women: Scars have not been healed

Former South Korean "comfort woman" Kim Bok-dong poses with a copy of her painting titled "The Day A 14-year-old Girl Is Stolen Away" in her room at "Our Home", a special shelter for former "comfort women", in Seoul, South Korea, July 23, 2015. During an art therapy session to help cure the trauma from being a "comfort woman", Kim painted the picture depicting how she was abducted by Japanese military personnel. The shelter is run by an NGO. According to her testimony to South Korean researchers, in 1940 she was taken into a Japanese military brothel. station. On weekdays she was forced to have sex with 15 Japanese soldiers a day. It seemed like it was more than 50 on one weekend day, she said. She was then taken to Japanese military "comfort stations" in China, Hong Kong, Sumatra, Java, Malaysia and Singapore until Japan surrendered. [Photo/Agencies]