THE JAPANESE WOMEN SEX SLAVE "When we got to that house, we were told that we were there for the sexual pleasure of the Japanese military ... We immediately started to protest. We said we were forced to, that they couldn't do this to us, they didn't have the right to Doing it, it was against the Geneva Convention, and we never would. But they laughed at us, you know, they just laughed. They said they could do with us what they wanted. " Jan O'Herne, Dutch "Comfort Woman". One of the most heinous war crimes committed by the Japanese Imperial Army in Southeast Asia during World War II was the ruthless sexual exploitation of 200,000 Asian women (Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Filipino, Korean and even Japanese) and 200 -300 Dutch and 30 Australian women. During the war the imperial army, worried about the spread of venereal diseases, decided to open a chain of brothels in all the conquered territories in order to avoid this problem (...