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comfort woman

[ kuhm-fert woom-uhn ]

noun

  1. a girl or woman forced into prostitution by Japanese soldiers during World War II.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of comfort woman1

First recorded in 1960–65
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Similar fights over memorials to the ‘comfort women’ have played out elsewhere, including Southern California.

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Similar fights over memorials to the comfort women have played out elsewhere — including Southern California — but the dispute has special resonance in Germany, with its own travails in coming to terms with an ugly history.

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Resolving the comfort women cases poses similar challenges.

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The team is led by theologians and faith leaders - among them, a Presbyterian and a Lutheran pastor - who listen and comfort women who struggle to reconcile their faith with their decision to get an abortion.

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The team is led by theologians and faith leaders — among them, a Presbyterian and a Lutheran pastor — who listen and comfort women who struggle to reconcile their faith with their decision to get an abortion.

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