Japanese troops occupying Korea in the early 1900s. (Credit: Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Chen Jinyu, then 80 years old in this 2005 photograph, was raped everyday at 16 years old while living as a comfort woman for the Japanese military.

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