SEOUL, May 3 (Xinhua) — A South Korean sufferer of pressured intercourse slavery in Japan’s navy brothels throughout World War II died this week, and the variety of surviving victims is decreased to 9, South Korea’s gender ministry stated on Wednesday.
The sufferer, whose identification was not made public on the request of the bereaved household, handed away on Tuesday, in line with the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family.
The dying left solely 9 such victims alive within the nation, out of the 240 formally registered with the South Korean authorities as former wartime intercourse slaves.
The common age of the surviving victims was 94.4 years, with eight folks aged between 90 and 95 and one particular person aged 96 or greater.
The Korean Peninsula was colonized by the Imperial Japan from 1910 to 1945.
Historians say 400,000 Asian ladies, largely from China and the Korean Peninsula, have been coerced, duped or kidnapped into intercourse slavery at Japanese navy brothels earlier than and through the Pacific War.