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| | Silence Broken:Korea Comfort Women, reviewed by Howard |
 | | According to most accounts, the majority of the women were Koreans, typically teenagers, and most were taken from families, schools, and friends in Korea either by force or on the promise of work in factories or for Japanese families. |
 | | Hence, between the testimonies of surviving 'comfort women' whom she has interviewed, we have accounts of her struggling with police in China to be allowed to interview two surviving women, several chapters of history, comments relating her reactions and emotions as she is told about what happened to her informants, and five poems. |
 | | Romanisation is curious, explained in the preliminary notes in terms of "I did my own transliteration as closely as they sound without following the most common practice of using the McCune-Reischauer system". |
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