
A woman visits the former site of a "comfort women" station at Liji Lane in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu Province on August 14, 2024, to mark the 12th International Memorial Day for "Comfort Women." Approximately 400,000 Asian women, mostly Korean or Chinese, were forcibly taken away from their homes to a "comfort station," where they were raped, tortured and humiliated by the Japanese army during WWII. Photo: VCG