Portrait photos of 16 Indonesian former "comfort women" are currently on display at a Tokyo gallery in an exhibition focused on conveying their painful wartime experiences.

The women were taken against their will to brothels for the Japanese military as comfort women, but kept their silence for a long time until journalist Hilde Janssen and photographer Jan Banning, both from the Netherlands visited them to record their harrowing memories.

Each portrait by Banning is accompanied by an account of the woman captured in the photo — sometimes reluctantly shared — about her experience during World War II.