Miss Noh Chong-Ja
1. The plaintiff, Miss Noh Chong-Ja,was born in Chung Chong South Province on 16th February, 1922 on a poor tenant farm.
2. Miss Noh Chong-Ja lived with her parents and sisters and brothers, assisting with both housework and farm work. In March 1938, when she was 16 years old, Miss Noh's mother heard a rumour that young girls were being taken away by the Japanese military.
Miss Noh thought it was impossible for the military to come all the way to her village. But 5 days after hearing the rumour, when she was working in the field in the afternoon, her mother came running out urgently with her lunch. Her mother took off her own skirt, put it over Miss Noh's head (hair), and said to her "the army has come, quickly escape to your aunt's house". (The hair style of married and unmarried women was different).
Miss Noh was extremely afraid but, deliberately avoiding displaying the behaviour of an unmarried girl, she set out frantically on foot on the two hour journey to her aunt's house in the mountains.
When she had only travelled for about an hour (half way) towards her aunt's house Miss Noh was captured by seven Japanese soldiers (one military policeman and six ordinary soldiers). As the soldiers had hold of Miss Noh's hands and legs it was impossible for her to run away. One of the soldiers piggy backed her to a truck and put her in it.The truck was over the other side of a hill. In that one truck were 38 young girls around the age of 18. In addition, there were two Japanese women in their 30s acting as monitors. The truck with the girls in it was followed by a truck with some twenty soldiers aboard.
All the girls held hands and said "we have already died" (this is no different to death) and they cried opennly and loudly. The truck left the village that afternoon.
3. Miss Noh Chong-Ja was taken with the other girls to a small storeroom-like place and after being given a rice ball and water the truck continued to drive through the night. Then they boarded a train for two days and travelled to Tai-Ka-Chin.
As soon as they got off the train they were loaded onto a waiting truck and after three hours of driving arrived at Oh-Oh-Tae Mountain.
The Oh-Oh-Tae Mountian Unit was inside a castle (fortress) wall.
All 38 girls were brought here together. The "Comfort House" was inside the unit grounds. Like a horse stable it was petitioned off into small rooms by thin boards. Each room was only just big enough for two people, with a curtain at the front. On the wooden floor was a thin mat.
There were many small rooms in this stable-like place. Even when the 38 girls went in 5 rooms were left over. Miss Noh Chong-Ja was in room number 27.
5. From the time they went into the stable-like place it was only when the soldiers came that the girls first knew they were to "service" the soldiers. If Miss Noh thinks of the events of that time she cannot speak. The first time, because she didn't do as she was told, she ws kicked in the face with an army boot and her nose bled. "Cheeky bitch of a Korean (literally `Chosun person'), I will beat you to the ground" the soldier said.
6. Life in the "Comfort House" was daily humiliation. In the morning ordinary soldiers came. After lunch and taking a bath she had to "service" the higher office. There were days when she had to receive 30 to 40 soldiers in one day. Even now when her legs are swollen and in pain she wonders if it is because of that experience.
She had only one day off a month. During menstration she would say "I am menstrating" and deliberately allowed her pants to be bloodied. Because of this, although there were some soldiers who demanded to be "serviced" even during menstration, there were usually less soldiers than usual.
Once a week the military doctor would check for venereal disease. The girls who caught venereal disease were transferred to a quarantine section. Condoms were given to both soldiers and Comfort Women and using them was compulsory.
7. During life at the Comfort House there was one small pleasure, distribution of goods from a "comfort bag" about once a month. In the bag were Japanese petticoats, canned foods, soap, skin lotion etc. There was absolutely no receiving of money. There were soldiers who brought biscuits to the comfort girls but they threw them back at them.
8. Meals were three times a day, with about 10 minutes allowed to eat rice and soup in the dining room. The food was always served by 25-26 year old soldiers. As she had no appetite there were many times she could not eat.
9. At the beginning they wore Korean style skirt and blouse but very soon they received Japanese Kimonos. Sometimes there were days when they were ordered wear Kimonos. At those times they also had to wear a sash with "Great Japanese National Defense Wives Association" written on it. On one occasion, as congratulations on winning a battle, the girls had to wear the Kimono and sash and line up outside the wall of the fortress.
On another occasion they got dressed up for the execution of captured Chinese ssoldiers (Palo). The Chinese soldiers were stood next to a hole and after their head was chopped off with an axe the head rolled into the hole. The soldiers said "we are showing you so you will become courageous" when they forced the girls to attend the execution. On the night Miss Noh Chong-Ja had to attend the event she had a terrible nightmare.
10. Every hour soldiers came to inspect the "Comfort House". At the beginning 5 soldiers carried out the inspection, and later 3 soldiers. Even when going to visit the clothing store inside the army fortress a soldier would follow, they were not sent alone.
Miss Noh got to know the clothing store keeper. When the store keeper decided to move to Tein Chin (China) he informed Miss Noh of the date. Miss Noh climbed inside the storekeeper's huge box and put a blanket over her. The store keeper placed clothing over the top of her and she hid there. With his help she was able to escape from the Comfort House. This was two years after she had been taken away to the Comfort house, March , 1940.
11. Miss Noh became like a step daughter to the storekeeper who helped her escape, and she lived with her step parents in Tein Chin. But when her step parents returned to their home country in 1947 Miss Noh, then aged 25, returned to her home town.
When Miss Noh went back to her home town she discovered her father and younger sister had died. Five months after she had been detained her father had been taken away to the South Pacific Islands to perform military duties and died there.
12. As there were people in her home town who knew of her past history she could not continue to live there. She left her home town and worked as an errand girl etc, managing to maintain a living alone although it was very wearisome.
E+0>Even now she is receiving government "living assistance" and surviving at subsistence level.
She doesn't know how many times she considered killing herself but she clenched her teeth and lived on so that one day she might reveal the Japanese brutality and receive compensation. This is because, for her father's safe resting, she wishes to place a tombstone on his grave in the South Pacific islands. DY> and receive compensation. This is because, for her father's safe resting, she wishes to place a tombstone on his grave in the South Pacific islands. DY> ds. DY>
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