That is the second museum and archive in China and the fourth worldwide, dedicated to exhibiting, researching, and documenting the comfort women issue, serving as a living testimony of the biggest sexual war crime ever happened in history. The first archives opened in Japan in 2005, the second in South Korea, and the third in Nanjing, China. The term Comfort Women is related to more than 200,000 girls and women from China, New Guinea, Burma, the Philippines, and Korea, who before and during WW2, were abducted from their homes, held in captivity at front-line brothels by the Japanese army, forcing them into sexual slavery. They lived in inhuman conditions, suffered violence and rape daily. The museum opened on October 22nd, 2016, the same day a Comfort Women statue was unveiled on the Shanghai Normal University grounds. In the museum, there are 48 display boards and 80 exhibits that include original items and artifacts donated by the victims and their families, some were collected from brothel stations. The research center holds written and recorded testimonials of Chinese comfort women and documents on the 158 comfort stations in Shanghai and 67 stations in southern Hainan Province. Recent researches show that there were 200,000 comfort women in China only. Both the museum and the statue are the effort of Su Zhiliang, a professor at Shanghai Normal University and head of research on the issue of comfort women. Read more...