Military sex slaves (‘Comfort Women’)

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Japanese Debate History of ‘Comfort Women’
Summary of a discussion, 18 February 1997, from the SS-J forum on nature of World War II military prostitution.
Honor and Justice to Comfort Women! —Global Campaign 2000
From Yayori Matsui, VAWW-NET Japan, 15 May 1998. A call for a Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery, which carries the issue of the ‘Comfort Women’ and Japanese war responsibility to a new level, and raises historical and contemporary issues that go far beyond Japan.
Tokyo junks Pinay sex slaves' plea
AP, The Manila Times, 7 December 2000. Amid stepped-up international pressure for justice, a Japanese court on Wednesday rejected demands from Filipino women forced into sexual slavery by Japan's army during World War II for compensation and an apology.
Emperor ‘could have halted atrocities’
By Kwan Weng Kin, The Straits Times, 13 December 2000. The late Emperor Hirohito was well aware of the Rape of Nanking and could have halted the atrocities by Japanese soldiers, judges at a people's tribunal found. But instead, he promoted sexual slavery through intensification of the comfort women system.