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An exhibition opened Wednesday in Tokyo of paintings by former "comfort women," depicting the pain they suffered as sex slaves for the Imperial Japanese Army.

The 24 works, on display at the Women's Active Museum on War and Peace in Shinjuku Ward, were done by former sex slaves who live at Nanum House, which means shared house in Korean, near Seoul. They studied painting under volunteer teachers.

"Innocence Stolen" depicts a naked girl lying beside a Japanese soldier with her hands covering her face. It is from the painter's memory of being forcibly brought to a mountain by a Imperial Japanese soldier and raped.

The painting "Comfort Station in Rabaul" shows a comfort woman looking tired as she sits in front of a brothel in Papua New Guinea while Imperial Japanese soldiers wait in line to go inside.

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