Editor’s Pick

 three Taiwanese women hold a press conference to recount their experiences as “comfort women” —a euphemistic term for over a hundred thousand women forced into sex work by the Japanese army system of brothels set up for exclusive use by Japanese soldiers, in order to prevent the spread of venereal disease among soldiers and reduce incidents of sexual assault, began during the 1932 occupation of Shanghai. Following the mass rapes during the Nanjing Massacre of 1937, all Japanese military contingents in China were directed to set up “comfort stations.”