The hidden battle of Leyte : the picture diary of a girl taken by the Japanese military / Remedios Felias ; Chieko Takemi, supervisor ; Masanobu Sawada, Japanese translation ; Jean Fallon, English translation

The hidden battle of Leyte : the picture diary of a girl taken by the Japanese military / Remedios Felias ; Chieko Takemi, supervisor ; Masanobu Sawada, Japanese translation ; Jean Fallon, English translation

Philippines--History--Japanese occupation, 1942-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Philippine.

World War, 1939-1945--Philippines.

Not a diary written at the time the events occurred, but an illustrated memoir written by a Filipino teenager who was taken by the Japanese Army in Leyte and forced to become a “comfort woman”, or sex slave.

The memoir and its illustrations were written in the 1990s after Lila Filipina, a women’s rights group in the Philippines, took up the campaign to seek justice for Filipina victims of Japanese military sexual crimes. The narrative was originally written in Filipino, the Philippine national language, and is reproduced here with Lola Remedios’ drawings, along with English and Japanese translations.

Felias, Remedios

Tokyo : Bucung Bucong, 1999

1999

26 x 17 cm.

Softbound

4896180240

D 810 .C698 F45 1999

13808

67 p.

ill.