LOS ANGELES – Until recently, Kim Soon Duk never spoke about her experience as a sex slave for Japanese soldiers during the war.
Not even her closest family members knew that Kim spent three years in Shanghai and Nanjing as a sex slave, rather than as a conscripted factory worker in Japan, as she had been led to believe before being shipped off from South Korea to China.
Unable to view this article?
This could be due to a conflict with your ad-blocking or security software.
Please add japantimes.co.jp and piano.io to your list of allowed sites.
If this does not resolve the issue or you are unable to add the domains to your allowlist, please see out this support page.
We humbly apologize for the inconvenience.
With your current subscription plan you can comment on stories. However, before writing your first comment, please create a display name in the Profile section of your subscriber account page.