An exhibition to look back on developments over the past 10 years in addressing wartime sexual slavery is now under way at a Tokyo museum and resource center on the former "comfort women."
The exhibition was organized to mark the 10th anniversary of the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal, a nonbinding people's court that gathered 64 victims of sexual slavery alongside legal experts in Tokyo in December 2000 to examine the issue, and held Japan's wartime leaders responsible for violence against women.
Around 60 panels displayed at the Women's Active Museum on War and Peace, known as WAM, show testimony given by former sex slaves from nine nations, some that were established after the war, and former Japanese soldiers who exploited women, and how the news media at home and abroad reported the tribunal.