Comfort women

Title: Life During Japanese Occupation: Filipina Comfort Women

Written Document Analysis Worksheet

A. Title: The Testimony of Maria Rosa Henson
B. Attach a photo or printed format of the document

I. Comprehensive Description
 December 1941
 381 cases of Class B and Class C war crimes
 “Filipina Comfort Women”
 Misrepresented
 “Needed” by the Japanese soldiers
 Raped
 Never go back home
II. Relevance/Significance to JPhilippine history and to Filipino Nation
 Shinozo Abe
 Erase from the world’s memory
 Discrimination
 Women Rights
 Feminism
III. Secondary Sources:
A. 1. Jane McMullen (June 16,2016)
2. Comprehensive Summarry

Red House in Mapanique

 The Red House in Mapanique where the rape and abuses were done by
the Japanese Army to the Filipina comfort women.
 Testimonies by Lita and Mileng who lives nearby the house.
 Now considered haunted 
3. Relevance to your chosen topic
 It is important because it reveals details and testimonies about the lives of
some Filipino comfort women during the abuses of the Japanese military.

B. 1. Floyd Whaley, Jan 29,2016

2. 
 Hilaria Bustamante,89 

-Abducted by Japanese Soldiers 

-Forced into servitude and abused

3. Relevance to your chosen topic

 It gives us a background of what took place during the japanese
occupation in the Philippines
C. 1. Cody Cepeda, December 8, 2018

  Lola Estelita Dy

2. Comprehensive Summary
 The organized sexual slavery system of the Imperial Japanese Army
 Background of Lola Estelita Dy’s abduction and experience as a comfort
woman
  The Filipina comfort woman statue and justice for comfort women

3. Relevance to your chosen topic

 It gives a brief background of what transpired during the Japanese
occupation in the Philippines by giving an explanation of the comfort
women system
 It narrates the experience of one of the comfort women, Lola Estelita Dy