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Yi Yong-su (1928 – )
born in Daegu, Gyeongsang-do, South Korea <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Yi-Yong-su\"

\u00a9 Tsukasa Yajima <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m so indignant, I think I\u2019m going to drop dead!  Oh, bring back my youth!\u201d shouts Grandmother Yi Yongsu.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was born the only daughter among many sons in a poor Daegu household in 1928.  From a very young age she worked in factories to help her family, until in 1944, at the age of fifteen, she was deceived by a Japanese who pretended to offer her a job, and instead abducted her to Taiwan, where she was made a sexual slave. At Ms. Yi\u2019s \u201ccomfort station,\u201d the majority of visiting soldiers were members of a kamikaze suicide squad.  One of these kamikaze pilots, who gave her the Japanese name Toshiko, sang this modified version of a kamikaze song to her just before he departed for the front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Yi, always bright and cheerful, received an honorary graduate degree from Gyeongbuk University and is passing her old age vigorously engaged in all sorts of activism.  She travels around Korea and Japan giving testimony about her experience of Japanese sexual slavery, participating in demonstrations and other events, pressing the Japanese government to accept responsibility for its war crimes.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Song of the Pilots<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Writer unknown<\/p>\n\n\n\n