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Abstract: 

The issues raised by the “wartime comfort women” cases that have been brought against Japan in the last two decades are manifold. “Comfort women” is the euphemistic term used to describe young women, mostly teenagers, forced to provide sex-on-demand to officers and soldiers at Japanese military installations (“comfort stations”) during WWII.Despite the long trajectory from crime to court, the questions raised by the lawsuits brought by these elderly victims remain charged, especially in Japan, where the government and the judiciary have held firm on the assertion that official apologies in the 1990s to the women should have ended their pursuit for some form of acknowledgement and compensation.

Keywords: Hague Convention Article 3

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