In the media
Publications
Comfort Women on the cover of Japanese magazine.
On September 20, 2014 the Japanese photo magazine DAYS JAPAN will run a portrait of ‘Comfort Woman’ Wainem on its October cover, and 6 more inside pages about this subject. Wainem is an Indonesian woman who during WW2 was dragged from her home and forced to serve as (unpaid) prostitute for the Japanese military for two-and-a-half years. She and the others in the DAYS JAPAN publication were portrayed by Dutch photographer Jan Banning andinterviewed by Dutch journalist Hilde Janssen (for their books Comfort Women and Schaamte en onschuld).
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National Public Radio (USA), The Picture Show
Untold stories of wartime abuse
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June 4, 2011
The Jakarta Post Weekender (Indonesia)
Living to tell
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July 26, 2010
Asia News Network
Comfort women break silence to tell their stories
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August 21, 2010
The Jakarta Globe (Indonesia)
Comfort women breaking the silence
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August 18, 2010
Claire Hewitt’s Blog
If not Now
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Documentary
‘Because we were beautiful’ by Frank van Osch
A documentary film that follows Hilde Janssen and Jan Banning several times during their journeys in their quest to find, interview and photograph former comfort women in Indonesia. The documentary was broadcasted on Dutch national television on August 15, 2010 and has been selected in two film festivals in the USA.
watch trailer > (english subtitles)
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