{"id":55421,"date":"2023-05-24T09:03:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T00:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/24\/taiwans-last-known-comfort-woman-dies-aged-92"},"modified":"2023-05-24T09:03:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T00:03:13","slug":"taiwans-last-known-comfort-woman-dies-aged-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55421","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan\u2019s last known \u2018comfort woman\u2019 dies aged 92"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners vow to continue fighting in memory of the \u2018grandmas\u2019 \u2013 an estimated 2,000 Taiwanese women sexually enslaved by Japan\u2019s military<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s last known survivor of Japan\u2019s wartime sexual slavery has died at the age of 92, according to the island\u2019s foreign ministry, which called the issue a \u201cwound in human history\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Referred to as \u201ccomfort women\u201d, more than 200,000 women were sexually enslaved by Japan\u2019s military during the second world war, mostly from South Korea but also from Taiwan, China, and Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/24\/taiwans-last-known-comfort-woman-dies-aged-92\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners vow to continue fighting in memory of the \u2018grandmas\u2019 \u2013 an estimated 2,000 Taiwanese women sexually enslaved by Japan\u2019s militaryTaiwan\u2019s last known survivor of Japan\u2019s wartime sexual slavery has died at the age of 92, according to the island&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3760,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,222,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3760"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55422,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55421\/revisions\/55422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}