Japanese ‘Comfort Women’ Could Not Believe When American Soldiers Finally Liberated Them Explore how ⚔️ the closing years of World War II revealed one of history’s most harrowing human tragedies. As American troops advanced across the Pacific from Burma to the Philippines, they uncovered evidence of Imperial Japan’s vast system of sexual slavery — an organized network of “comfort stations” imprisoning an estimated 200,000 women. These women, many from Korea, China, and the Philippines, had been