Demonstrations across Asia Protesting Sexual Slavery

　　Demonstrators across Asia are renewing demands that Japanese leaders give justice to women forced into sexual slavery during World War II.

 

　　Hundreds of people have protested in front of the Japan Interchange Association in Taipei, demanding the Japanese government apologize to the victims, known as "comfort women".

 

　　Kang Shuhua is the executive director of Taipei Women's Rescue Foundation.

 

　　"We hope Japan will be able to formally legislate¹. Through the Japanese legislature and the public effort, we ask for the Japanese government to face up to history and restore justice and truth."

 

　　Meanwhile, around 2-thousand protesters gathered outside the Japanese embassy in South Korea demanding an official apology ahead of the country's Liberation Day celebrations.

 

　　"The disaster the South Korean people have suffered is the disaster of the country. It is a shame of the Japanese government and the South Korean government. We are not suffering this alone. So far, the Japanese government hasn't offered an official apology. Without an apology, the Liberation Day has no meaning for us."

 

　　Protesters are also proposing August 14th become known as international Comfort Women Memorial Day.

 

　　On the same day in 1991, the first victim of Japanese sexual slavery came forward to tell her ordeal² during the World War II.

 

　　It's estimated some 700-thousand women across Asia were forced into sexual slavery during the war.

1 legislate   

vt.制定法律；n.法规，律例；立法

参考例句：

• Therefore,it is very urgent to legislate for the right of privacy.因此，为隐私权立法刻不容缓。
• It's impossible to legislate for every contingency.为每一偶发事件都立法是不可能的。

2 ordeal   

n.苦难经历，（尤指对品格、耐力的）严峻考验

参考例句：

• She managed to keep her sanity throughout the ordeal.在那场磨难中她始终保持神志正常。
• Being lost in the wilderness for a week was an ordeal for me.在荒野里迷路一星期对我来说真是一场磨难。