Abstract

The study was conducted in order to investigate after-effects of torture and other cruel treatment on comfort women for Japanese Soldiers during the World War II. Fifty-seven cases were analyzed according to the torture method lists published by the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture victims(IRCT), the Post-traumatic disorder checklist from DSM-IV, the Memorial University of Newfoundland Scale of Happiness (Kozma and Stones,1980), loneliness from The UCLA Loneliness Scale (Russell, 1980). 1.78.4% of cruel experience of comfort women were identical with IRCT torture method list in total. 75.0% of Physical experience, 87.5% of psychological, 72.7% of compound (sexual) experience were identical with torture method lists. Body injury with guns and knifes, finger twist with metal probes, no food and water supply, dragging body roping neck with a string, rape and threat with guns and knifes, rape during mensturation packing with cotten, sexual organ mutilation such as uterus, ovaries for infertility were not listed of the IRCT torture method lists. 2. The total frequency of torture and other cruel treatment experienced were 240 (Physical 115, psychological 46, sexual 79). Physical 2.0, psychological 1.4, and sexual 1.9 (5.3 in total) torture and other cruel treatment were experienced per comfort woman. 3. The after-effects of torture and other cruel treatment on comfort women were post-traumatic discoder(100%), unhappiness (89.5%), loneliness (36.8%). Major complaints were 'feelings of no future','physical and psychological reaction repeated repeated to the event','feelings of anger all the time and easily upset'. The types of unhappiness were 'shame','demoralization','self-blame','guilty feelings of surviving'. The status of suicide were committed 26%, repeated thiking of suicide 9%, The types of loneliness were 'nobody understand my experience' 42%, 'nobody turn to' 29%, 'looking down on me' 9%, 'mistrust other' 5%, 'experienced alone' 5% 4. The socioeconomical after-effects of torture and other cruel treatment of comfort women were 'living alone' 40% and 'governmental subsiby' 68%.

• Keywords: IRCT , comfort women for Japanese soldiers, physical, psychological, sexual torture, cruel treatment, after-effects.;