Matsui, Yayori

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Name (Latin)
Matsui, Yayori
Date of birth
1934-04-12
Date of death
2002-12-27
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 108537766
Wikidata: Q11529049
Library of congress: n 81032976
Sources of Information
  • LCN ; note: b. 1934
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Wikipedia description:

Yayori Matsui (松井やより Matsui Yayori) (April 12, 1934 – December 27, 2002) was a Japanese journalist and women's rights activist noted for her work to raise awareness of sex slaves and sex tourism in post-war Asia. In 1961 she began work as a journalist for the newspaper Asahi Shimbun, retiring in 1994 to work as a full-time social activist, founding numerous women's organizations and writing on gender inequality in Japan and on sex crimes committed by the Japanese Imperial Army, namely against the comfort women of the Second World War. Her work culminated in the 2000 Tokyo Women's War Crimes Tribunal, a tribunal held to gain some form of justice for the victims of Japanese military sexual slavery.

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