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CPOY 64 Portrait

A picture of a person that reveals the essence of the subject's character.

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Slide 5 of 7
Award of Excellence: Untitled
September 27, 2009
Dalyeun Shim, now 87, was abducted when being at her age of 12 and was forced into prostitution as a sexual slavery by Japanese soldiers during World War II. She was forced to move to Taiwan in Japanese military brothels. Physical abuses resulted in mental disorder, causing her to avoid people more than twenty years even after releasing from military brothels. She has not remembered what she went through in the brothel at all. "I can't die without Japanese government's official apology. They ruined my whole life.", Shim said. Japanese government has denied its crime since World War II and has not provided any official compensation.
Joon Hyoung Kim / University of Missouri
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