Some historians believe as many as 200,000 women were sent to frontline to be sexually abused between 1932 and 1945
Japanese women hold portraits of Chinese, Philippine, South Korean and Taiwanese former 'comfort women' who were sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during the Second World War. Photograph: Toru Yamanaka/AFP
China has released documents it claims offers “ironclad proof” that the Japanese military forced Asian women to work in frontline brothels before and during the Second World War. Almost 90 documents from the archives of the military police corps-part of Japan’s Kwantung army, the occupying force that propped up a puppet regime in Manchuria in the early 1930s – include letters from Japanese soldiers, newspaper articles and military files discovered in the 1950s and kept at the Jilin provincial archives in north east-China.
The 25 previously confidential files relating to sex slaves include reports, telephone records and documents mentioning the sexual enslavement, according to Chinese media. Other documents give details of the Nanking massacre, in which Japanese soldiers killed as many as 300,000 people during their 1937-1938 occupation of Nanking(now Nanjing), according to Chinese and western historians.
Chinese state media speculated that the publication was in response to repeated claims by conservative politicians that the women were not coerced by government authorities or the military.
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