Comfort bag

Comfort bag (慰問袋, imon-bukuro) was a gift packet prepared by civilians to be sent to Imperial Japanese Military soldiers for the purpose of encouraging them. The bag contains comfort articles (慰問品, imon-hin) not issued by the Japanese Military, such as toiletries, dried fruits, canned foods, and letters of encouragement. Bags were prepared by schoolgirls or local patriotic women's societies. These activities were also made in Korea, which was then under Japanese rule, to encourage Korean soldiers in the Imperial Japanese Military.[1][2][3]

An illustrated example of comfort bag
Korean women are putting comfort articles into comfort bags
Korean schoolgirls holding comfort bags before putting items in front of them into the bags

See also

References
  1. Niiya, Brian, ed. (1993). Japanese American History: An A-to-Z Reference from 1868 to the Present. VNR AG. p. 173. ISBN 0816026807.
  2. Hayashi, Brian Masaru (1995). For the Sake of Our Japanese Brethren: Assimilation, Nationalism, and Protestantism Among the Japanese of Los Angeles, 1895-1942. Stanford University Press. p. 104. ISBN 0804723745.
  3. Soh, C. Sarah (2008). The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan. University of Chicago Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-0226767772.


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