• How did the system that provided sex slaves to the Japanese military operate?
• What was daily life like for the sex slaves of the Japanese?
• How widespread was the system?
• Why is it unacceptable to use the Japanese euphemisms “comfort women” or “comfort stations” to refer to the women and places where they were violated?
• Besides the Chinese victims, what other countries did women come from that suffered the atrocities of the Japanese military sex slave system?
• Why have many women not spoken about their rape by the Japanese soldiers? Why are some women speaking now – over 50 years later?
• What is the response of the Japanese government to demands for compensation and apology on behalf of the survivors of the military sex slave system in China, Korea and elsewhere?
• What instance of violence against women are occurring in the world today?
• What can you do to call for justice and reconciliation on behalf of the women who were forced to be military sex slaves by the Japanese during WW2 and or women who are victims of rape and violence today?

— Extract from: New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education (2010), The Nanking Massacre and Other Japanese Military Atrocities, The Asia-Pacific War 1931-1945: Unit 5 Military Sex Slaves, pp. 114-128.