Chinese "comfort woman" to serve as a witness in Japanese court

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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/11/content_2684317.htm

HAIKOU, March 11 (Xinhuanet) -- An 80-year-old Chinese woman, who was used as a sex slave for Japanese soldiers during World War II, left the capital of south China's Hainan Province Thursday to serve as a witness in a Tokyo court.

The Tokyo local judicatory scheduled to announce the verdict onLin's case on March 17.

Lin is a native of Baoting Li and Miao Autonomous County. Beginning in 1943, the Japanese troops used her as a "comfort woman," but she escaped to home in 1946. Lin married in 1951 but never could have children because of her ordeal. She and her husband adopted a son and a daughter. snip

Lin and other Hainan women were only between 14 and 18 years old when they were used as sex slaves. snip

The Japanese used more than 200,000 young women from Indonesia, Korea, China, the Philippines and other Asian countries as sex slaves in World War II.

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