'Comfort women': Last known Taiwanese survivor dies at 92

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1970-01-01 08:00

Activists estimate 200,000 people were forced into sexual slavery by Japan's forces in World War Two.

The last known Taiwanese "comfort woman" from World War Two has died aged 92, says a Taipei anti-sex trafficking group.

"Comfort women" refers to those forced to work in the Japanese army's wartime brothels between 1932 and 1945.

Activists estimate 200,000 people from the occupied territories...