At the First International Symposium on the Issue of Chinese “Comfort Women” held in Shanghai this April, it was declared that the wartime habit of taking “comfort women” was paramount to military sex slavery. Carried out by the Japanese government and armies before and during World Ⅱ, in its colonies and occupied land, it was a heinous war crime, which severely infringed women’s human rights. And yet this period of history and the crimes that were committed have been deliberately “fortotten” by the Japanese. At the First International Symposium on the Issue of Chinese “Comfort Women” held in Shanghai this April, it was declared that the wartime habit of taking “comfort women ” was paramount to military sex slavery. Carried out by the Japanese government and armies before and during World Ⅱ, in its colonies and occupied land, it was a heinous war crime, which severely infringed women’s human rights. And yet this period of history and the crime that were that were committed have been deliberately “fortotten ” by the Japanese.