Grandma Kim Koon-Ja
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Painting by a Halmoni (Grandma), inspired by her terrifying experience being kidnapped, by Japanese soldiers, from her Korean village, to China and forced into sexual slavery.
July 26, 2014
Painting by a Halmoni (Grandma), inspired by her terrifying experience being kidnapped, by Japanese soldiers, from her Korean village, to China and forced into sexual slavery.
July 26, 2014
![Representative Ed Royce with "Comfort Women" Grandmas<br />
July 26, 2014<br />
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"[Everyone has] condemned the Japanese government's continued denial and its aggressive efforts to revise and erase its war crime, after 10 years of the US Congress urging the Japanese government to officially and unequivocally accept the responsibility. There is no US Representative who agrees with the Japanese government and its efforts to blame the victims, calling them "paid prostitutes" and "not sex slaves."<br />
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"Japan has been called on to issue an "official and unequivocal apology" to the victims and accept its responsibility for the crime it committed against the hundreds of thousands of the women and young girls, and educate the next generation about it so it will never recur."](https://photos.smugmug.com/Miscellaneous/Events/Grandma-Kim-Koon-Ja/i-SFHVs23/0/5c82e8a5/Ti/140726_Halmoni1EdRoyce-Ti.jpg)
