Sincerity can close ‘comfort women’ case

The historical animosity between South Korea and Japan has been going on for a long time, as this enactment of an attack from colonial-era Japanese soldiers by a few activists in Seoul shows. — AFP

“JEONGSINDAE” was a familiar word in my family. As a little child I didn’t know what it meant. Still, I discerned an association with something “forcible” and “unspeakable.”

One of my sisters, born in 1932, went to a secondary school affiliated with an education college. My father believed if she became a teacher, she could avoid being drafted into the “women’s volunteer corps.”