Newly released records show that all of the women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military in present-day Myanmar during the Pacific War were Korean.
 
Researchers at the National Institute of Korean History and the Human Rights Center at Seoul National University released a 1944 interrogation report of a Japanese military squad commander who had been taken prisoner by the U.S. during the Pacific War. The researchers obtained the records through declassified documents from the National Archives and Records Administration of the United States.
 
The nine-page report showed all the women who were sexually enslaved in what was then known as Burma were Korean.
 
The Japanese soldier also said during the interrogation that if the women had been deployed to combat regions instead of army posts, they would have all been killed by sex-starved soldiers.
 
The researchers in Seoul said the U.S. military had also questioned Japanese prisoners of war of Korean descent regarding Japan's infringements on human rights, including comfort women, Japan's compulsory draft and the forced changing of family names to Japanese.