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The mass rapes horrified the world, and Emperor Hirohito was concerned with its impact on Japan’s image.

Along the way, Japanese troops raped between 20,000 and 80,000 Chinese women. On December 13, 1937, Japanese troops began a six-week-long massacre that essentially destroyed the Chinese city of Nanking. Though military brothels existed in the Japanese military since 1932, they expanded widely after one of the most infamous incidents in imperial Japan’s attempt to take over the Republic of China and a broad swath of Asia: the Rape of Nanking. Records of the women’s subjugation is scant there are very few survivors and an estimated 90 percent of “comfort women” did not survive the war.

It’s been nearly a century since the first women were forced into sexual slavery for Imperial Japan, but the details of their servitude remain painful and politically divisive in Japan and the countries it once occupied. Lee Ok-seon, then 80, in a shelter for former sex slaves near Seoul, South Korea, holding an old photo of herself on April 15, 2007.