In the same week that a Japanese school district incorporated a contentious revisionist history textbook into its curriculum, activists established The Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace, which will be devoted to documenting the lives of the sex slaves who have been written out of the textbook.
The first of its kind in Japan, the museum will open its doors in August to catalogue the narratives of the approximately 200,000 women who were consigned to sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
—Mimi Hanaoka
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