25 YEARS OF WEDNESDAYS

Translator’s Note of Introduction
Peaceful Flutter of Wings
Author’s Forward to the English Translation
Forward to the Original Korean Version “20 Years of Wednesday”

1. The Wednesday Demonstrations
We Are All Connected
Sena’s Wish
Several Questions with Students
Empowered by Halmonis

2. Why are They Called “Comfort Women”?
Why Shouldn’t We Call Them the “Volunteer Corps”?
“Comfort Women”, Why Such a Beautiful Name?!
The Difference between “Comfort Women” and Comfort Women

3. The “Comfort Women” System
Women Cast Out to War Zones
Why were “Comfort Stations” Established?
The Strange Story of the Victims with No Perpetrator
How were the Girls Kidnapped?
Far Away to Foreign Countries
Treated Worse than Animals

4. The War that Followed the Girls
Liberation and Abandoned Girls
Hometowns of No Return
The Scars of the “Comfort Women”
? History Trip: A “Comfort Station” in Shanghai
? Halmoni and Me
Story of Han Ok-sun Halmoni
Halmoni, Are You Comfortable Up There?

5. Breaking the Silence
Women Activists Take the First Step
Movements to Uncover the Truth
The Wednesday Demonstrations Pick Up the Slack
Kim Hak-soon Halmoni’s Confession of Love to the World
Bravery Inspires Bravery
Across the Ocean to Australia
From Victims to Human Rights Activists: The Metamorphosis of the Halmonis
Changing the Minds of Europeans
Wednesday: Holding Hands in Peace
The Peace Monument Established at the 1000th Wednesday Demonstration
Over 1,200 Wednesday Demonstrations
? Messages to the Halmonis from Young People
Letter to Halmoni
Flowers
If I Knew

6. What Are We Fighting for?
Why No Confession from Japan?
The Asian Women’s Fund, “Healing Money” not Reparations
The Shameless Lie of the “Asian Women’s Fund”
Responses to the Asian Women’s Fund
Why Won’t Japan Admit the Facts?
1965 Korea-Japan Treaty and the Japanese Military “Comfort Women”
The Sorrow of 70th Anniversary of Korea’s Liberation

7. War and Women: The Endlessly Repeated Ill-Fated Relationship
Japan Creates Another Round of “Comfort Women” Victims
The Colony We Created
Apology to Vietnam
The Story of Women, Half of the World
War, Sex Crimes, and Women
? Two Letters and a Message
Letter to Mother: “I want to go back home”
Letter to Mother: “I promise”
The Wednesday Demonstration: Awakening World Conscience

8. Nabi Dreams of Peace Not War: How Will World Peace Arrive?
Halmoni’s Special Declaration
Nabi’s Flight to Congo
The Nabi Fund’s Flight to Vietnam
Vietnamese Halmonis’ Fear of 50 Years
“Put me in the car and let’s go to the embassy. Let me die there.”
The War and Women’s Human Rights Museum: Like a Miracle, the Testament of the Halmonis Became Reality
The Museum Becomes a Study Center for Peace
You Are Our Medicine
The Power of Silence, The Power of Confession, The Power of Solidarity

Appendix
Statement by the Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono on the result of the study on the issue of “comfort women”, also known as “The Kono Statement,” 4 August, 1993.
From U.S. House of Representatives House Resolution 121, 110th Congress, 30 July, 2007
From European Parliament resolution on Comfort Women, 12 December, 2007
Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan, also known as “The Pacific Constitution” or “The Peace Constitution,” 3 November, 1946.