Tokyo Tribunal: Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery
In the early 1990s, Asian women from several countries began to denounce their kidnapping and use as so-called “comfort women” in order to provide sexual services to the Japanese Imperial Army (JIA) during World War II. A number of civil society public hearings were held, especially in Korea where the largest number of victims came from, and in Japan and the Philippines. The UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and other UN bodies also reported on this issue. However, justice for the comfort women - who never received a full apology and reparations from the Japanese government – had still not been achieved.