Innocent Girls of War - Himeyuri Memorial
This 2nd World War Memorial is dedicated to the 219 High School Girls and Teachers who were diverted from their studies from March 1945 and illegally used by the Japanese Army as nurse interns in hospital for the Japanese war wounded. Within a few months the group was on the run in the middle of the battlefield, performing clean-up work of surgeons in dank, unsanitary caves. Not permitted to surrender and near defeat, the Japanese Army finally gave an order for the group to disband. In the chaos in the midst of war battle, the lives of most of the remaining members were sacrificed thereafter.
