Since August 2014, China's National Archives Administration has released a series of official archives on Japan's wartime "comfort women" system. This guide introduces the eight-part series and its significance as documentary evidence.
I. The series: Starting August 15, 2014, the National Archives Administration published the Selected Archives on "Comfort Women" — Japan's Military Sexual Slavery series on its official website, including documentary films, interrogation records of war criminals, and historical photographs, released in batches to the public. (Sources: National Archives Administration saac.gov.cn; Xinhua 2014-08-15)
II. Significance: The series presents official archival evidence to counter denial of wartime history, echoing the nomination of "comfort women" archives to the Memory of the World Register. As the most stable form of evidence, archives are powerful tools against forgetting and denial.
(Sources: National Archives Administration; Xinhua 2014-08-15. Data date: 2014 onward.)