We are proud members of the “Comfort Women” Justice Coalition, a grassroots, multi-ethnic and multi-national group of individuals and organizations that are part of the global “Comfort Women” Justice Movement. We are guided by the powerful leadership of the grandmothers (the surviving “Comfort Women”) themselves. In 2017, we unveiled the memorial Comfort Women: Column of Strength in San Francisco to remember the hundreds of thousands of women and girls sexually enslaved by the Japanese Imperial Army from the early 1930s to 1945 and to educate the public about their history. The memorial symbolizes our international resolve never to let that atrocity be repeated, and the memorial is also a reverent testament to all those who have been victims of sexual violence and sex trafficking.

Our Mission

WE, of the comfort women justice coalition, stand with you in solidarity today. As we think of the threat to Muslims and others today, we remember the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII and we say: It must not happen again. As we think of the millions of Latinos who are threatened with separation of their families and deportation, we remember the Chinese Exclusion Act and we say: It must not happen again. As we think of the young Black men shot down in their youth and the millions locked up in US prisons, we remember the lynchings and enslavement that went on for hundreds of years and we say: It must not happen again. As we think of those Native Americans protecting their land at Standing Rock, we remember the centuries of genocide and the stealing of lands and we say: It must not happen again. As we learn that Supreme Court nominees want to make LGBT’s outlaws once again, we think of all those who have been bullied, jailed and killed for being true to themselves and we say: It must not happen again. As we think of all the young women who are victims of sexual violence both here and around the world we think of the 400,000 comfort women and we say: It must not happen again. We stand here in solidarity with all who are threatened by this nationalistic, xenophobic and oppressive “reality.” are you and you are us. It must not and will not happen again!