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Twelve victims survived in China regarding the comfort women issue of the Japanese military.

Numerous victims have died in the meantime, and there are Chinese people working in various ways to keep their voices from disappearing.



Correspondent Song Wook from Beijing covered it.



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documentary film '22' about the fostering of 22 comfort women victims in China.



[Lin-Ailan/Comfort woman victim: I took off my clothes and forced me to do it.

If I didn't listen, I filled my mouth with a torture device.]



Director Guoker mobilized 5.5 million viewers with this film, arousing interest in the comfort women issue in Chinese society.



[Gooker/Director of Movie '22': The video record never disappears.

Remembering them is what we need to do now.]



But of the 22 grandmothers who appeared in the movie, 19 died without receiving Japanese apology.



There are now about 10 survivors in China identified by Professor Su Zi Liang, a professor at Shanghai Normal University, who has studied the comfort women problem for 30 years.



[Suzliang/Shanghai Normal University Professor: Currently, there are 12 confirmed survivors in China.

All are over 90 years old on average.] After



confirming that there were 200,000 comfort women victims in China and more than 1,000 comfort stations in China, Professor Xu strongly criticized Professor Ramsey's thesis, which became a problem, for ignoring the evidence.



[Suzliang/Shanghai Normal University Professor: The comfort women victims have lost their physical freedom.

It is a war crime controlled by the Japanese government and military.

This is the



truth

.]

Since 1995, lawyer Kangzen has been supporting the comfort women litigation against the Japanese government.



We traveled all over China to investigate cases and situations of victims.



All trials over a decade or so ended in loss, but Kang stressed that it was not the end.



[Kangzen/comfort women litigation support lawyer: Even if all the victims die, the voices they left behind should not be buried.

We need to keep the facts delivered.]



(Video coverage: Choi Deok-hyun, video editing: Lee Seung-hee)