BOOK REVIEW - MARY LYNN BRACHT's White Chrysanthemum

Book Cover This book is a riveting memoir of two sisters who were separated and could never reunite in their lifetime. The book tells the story of their struggles in the backdrop of raging World War 2 and Korean War. Freepik This intense account of abuse is centered around war crimes perpetrated against young girls and women by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces before and during World War 2. As many as 20,000 to 200,000 girls and women were abducted from Korea and other occupied countries and territores like Australia, Burma, China, Philippines, Indonesia, etc. We have often heard of war spoils where women have been raped and abducted. What happened in Korea in the 1930's was levels above than that. Young girls and women were abducted and forced into prostitution for the soldiers fighing for Japan. columbia.edu This shameful account of abuse hurled at women is an unpardonable offense which has time and again been shoved under the carpet, not only by ...