Comfort Woman: A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery Under the Japanese Military

In April 1943, fifteen-year-old Maria Rosa Henson was taken by Japanese soldiers occupying the Philippines and forced into prostitution as a comfort woman. In this simply told yet powerfully moving autobiography, Rosa recalls her childhood as the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy landowner, her work for Huk guerrillas, her wartime ordeal, and her marriage to a rebel leader who left her to raise their children alone. Her triumph against all odds is embodied by her decision to go public with the secret she had held close for fifty years.
Note: This is a self-edited version from the converted book PDF. The pages of the first part have been re-arranged since the original PDF's pages were weirdly jumbled (thus didn't make sense). Page headers and footers have also been removed so that you can read the story without disruption.