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This paper discusses the ways that artistic activism portrays Korean girls who were sent to serve military brothels of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) throughout occupied Asia, during World War II. It discusses how, together with international law, litigation and documentation, artistic activism has attempted to draw more supporters to the comfort women's cause.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Artistic Activism
Exhibits in North America
Concluding Discussion

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"Far work continues to be promised in the future, as more women and other artists take up the cause of the comfort women, making use of their testimony collected in several countries and what are said to be numerous surviving photographs taken shortly after the end of the War or at different times in the surviving comfort women's futures. For viewers not at all interested in imperial Japan's atrocities in Asia or the comfort women in particular, each work discussed in this paper, nonetheless, succeeds in a kind of informal reminder that what we see in the exterior or a person, or in perceptible emotions, can tell very little indeed as to a person's precise life experience. Of the third or so of comfort women to survive their existences of being military prostitutes, each had an horrendous story of devaluation, violence and injuries of all kinds."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Hicks, George. The Comfort Women - Japan's Brutal Regime of Forced Prostitution in the Second World War. New York: Norton, 1995.
• Hye-Jin. Ed. Unblossomed Flower - a Collection of Paintings by Former Military Comfort Women. Seoul: Historical Museum of Sexual Slavery by the Japanese Military, 2000.
• National Liberty Museum. "Quest for Justice - the Story of Korean Comfort Women as Told through Their Art." November 4. Philadelphia, 2000.
• Park, Ishle. "House of Sharing Comfort Women." Manoa. 13. (2001): 51-53.
• Provisions Library. "Comfort Women - Four Paintings by Hung Lui." January 21 - February 25. New York: Provisions for the Arts of Social Change, 2005.

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