Nanjing plans to build sex slaves museum

Plans to build a museum highlighting the plight of sex slaves during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression are being considered by authorities in Nanjing. The museum is being planned for a site where Chinese sex slaves were forced to provide services for Japanese troops during the war.

The site has seven two-story buildings along Liji Alley, near Taiping South Road in the Baixia district of Nanjing, capital of East China's Jiangsu province.

Cai Jia, a senior publicity official in Baixia district, said the district government has submitted a feasibility proposal for the project to the municipal authorities for approval.

If plans are approved, the museum will open in 2014 as a branch of the Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre, Cai says.

More than 200 sex slaves, or "comfort women", from Japan, the Korean Peninsula and China, were forced to work for Japanese soldiers in these buildings.

Cai said that as irrefutable evidence of the atrocities committed by the Japanese army, the site is a mirror of history and a warning about the future.

Japanese troops occupied Nanjing on Dec 13, 1937 and began a six-week massacre. Records show that some 300,000 people were killed.

Up to 200,000 Asian women were forced to provide sexual services to the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.