Japan's Famous Comfort Woman Lived in the Street? | Yokohama Mary 

You can only wonder what her life would have been like, if her brother had been a decent person. You can only admire this woman's strength.

Rest in peace sweet Mary. You were tricked, used, abused and abondoned. I am glad that you made a friend and I pray you can both be reunited, you will not be forgotten. Sleep well x

What a sad story. Poor Mary, you were so betrayed by your brother, who, at that time, would have been responsible to protect you. It seems to all stem from him casting you out, to fend for yourself in any way you could. RIP Mary.

How heartbreaking! Ironic they were called “comfort women” when there was no one around to comfort them! Also makes me feel ashamed of our soldiers. I’m a 76 yr old female.

This world is so cruel 😢😢 I am deeply saddened by how Mary and many others like her were treated and no one ever apologized to her or acknowledge her suffering 😢

Its even more cruel how people treated her. Like has anyone ever asked her why?? Genjiro really cared about her and possibly the only one.

Aw the story is so sad and so are many others. I was recently watching a documentary about comfort women and this man wanted to find some so he could interview them but each time they’re fewer and fewer of them because they’re all dying and most of them just want an apology from Japan but you know the Japanese government is stingy. I also heard one case where there was a six-year-old involved I could be wrong but if that’s true then that is just 🤮 and most of them also got addicted to opium 😞. The history of comfort women is so sad, thank you for this video.

Such a sad story, we can imagine how women were abused and bullied in those days not only by strangers from other countries but by their own government, and their own blood. If his brother had been different she would had a different life after all she was well educated. Even up to this day in Asia, a country like ours still hve this kind of stories where women r still consider as low grade citizen.😞

She had so many gifts and I wish she had been able to use them instead of being forced into a sad life. Dear Mary, you did the best you could to survive. I hope you found peace. I'[m glad you had Genjiro.

I'm amazed at your research, empathy for your subjects and simple, direct narration. I love your channel.

The cold hateful street’s as Mary’s home and no one to hold when her eyes teared up from brutal loneliness she still had hope in her heart for 40 years waiting on a man that would never come home to love and marry her. If there was ever proof a soul was made of gold.

Awww This is such a tragic story, Poor woman what a miserable life through no fault of her own . Hope she’s at peace now .

Wow, I wasn't expecting this. Incredible, a very poignant story.

what an extremely sad story, I do feel for Mary. I am happy she found a true friend at the end. I have read of other horrific stories like this, weren't Korean women conned into this job to service, in this case, non- american soldiers? What does it say about men, regardless of nationality at war, that they think they are owed this in some way.

This is just awful, the Japanese government should have apologized to the women.

If she wasn't waiting for the soldier who forgot about her she could moved far away where no one knew her and started fresh. Her brother could have kept her home for free labour instead of tossing her into the streets. Parents did not instill family values into the brother or maybe his wife was pulling his strings.

I was very touched by Mary’s story, you have told it well in such a short span of time. This is real history.

It breaks my heart that any woman was ever treated that way.

Mary’s sad story is to a great extent the story of Madama Butterfly, of the famous tragic opera by Puccini, and of many real women around the world wherever US troops have been stationed. Butterfly is the lover of an US naval officer during the opening of Japan to the West (late 19th c.), has a child by him and is promised that he’ll return from the US to be with her. She waits and waits and when he finally comes back he’s married to an American woman. Distressed by her lover’s treason, Butterfly commits suicide.

thank you for sharing this sad story. how devastating. absolutely devastating. i hope she is able to rest in peace that there has been some acknowledgement of the abuses and exploitation that she has suffered. devastating.

Terribly sad. God Bless Mary and all those precious women who were used and abused. 💔

This is outrageous and inhumane! Makes me sick and very angry to know a government treated their women in such a way! It breaks my heart she and the other ladies suffered so much! Bless you Mary!

We can just say that love is blind but if u blind yourself forever you will just regret it for the rest of your life turning yourself more into the loop of blindness. So have Limitations and rules for your Love rather than sweeping into your demise.

So sad . She was lucky to find that one friend . Whenever I see homeless begging on the street I give them money. No one knows another person's but they often judge them harshly . " There but for the grace of God go I "

I'm so thankful that God sees our hearts. These women were doing what they needed to survive.

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What a beautiful story about love & dreams and hope all of her long life … 💋🌹💞😘🌸🌼 Rest In Peace Mary & Genjiro you were both amazing and extraordinary people 👌🏼👏🏼💋 thanks for sharing this because it’s beautiful like a drama & love old movie 🎥 beautiful beautiful story like a Christmas night story but the end isn’t " happily ever after " 💔

I am so saddened and angered by the contempt this woman was shown. Goes to show how she was valued solely for her appearance. She could move freely and attract clients and friends in Yokahoma during her youth, only to be driven away as an older woman. Absolutely terrible treatment. Bless Genjiro for protecting and providing friendship to her in her twilight years.

So sad. R I P gracious lady.

This is just heartbreaking! I hope she is at peace now!

This is so sad. Everything is just heartbreaking with Mary. She was waiting for her love to come back and he never did 😭

This is true stories from what I heard my grandparents told us , it is very outrages and cruel to women

We human’s are truly evil… rest in peace sweet Mary🙏🏻 !!

Im in tears...

She's really pretty even as an older lady;; very sorry she was all alone in her life & had nowhere to call home : [

This is so sad it seems to be almost unreal. Makes me want to slap all those people upside the head and ask them what was wrong with them to ignore her. Fourty years on the street and no one showed her the love of God? And to think there was no social safety net to help this woman yet they can take her to a nursing home in her old age? I wonder if she flat out refused help.

Fantastic narration. I felt so bad for Mary. 😥 I'm grateful she had a loyal and kind friend

This is just heartbreaking and sad.

This is wonderfully informative. How said is the life of Mary and her friends to be called comfort women.

This is just horrific ,I cannot imagine how they were feeling ,so sad .

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Japan is a great country, but they are yet to apologize to many. The Comfort workers, The Korean women whom they used as toys during the war, many many others.

Poor Mary 🥺🥺🥺 This is the first story that literally moved me to tears ...

What a sad but beautiful story! I live in Yokohama, and I often heard about "Yokohama Mary" a legendary woman. She is a victim of World War II.

I expect many other girls finding out what the job was were outraged and refused it.

a very sad love story. the US GI officier may have fallen in Korean War battle field.

Damn, the real life version of Ms. Dinsmore from Charles Dickens' Great Expectation.... I can even see the resemblance of her with Anne Bancroft's version in 1998 movie....

Wow ! This is sooo sad !!😔

So moving!

War is hell. It affects everything and everyone. Lives are never the same.

Heartbreaking

The youth of Kali have the upmost respect for you,Mary. Hearing about your love tale broke our hearts. Everyone here admired your love to the American officer. You are a revered symbol of eternal love. May you now rest in peace....2-25-2024 ❤❤❤❤

i would love to watch her story in film....RIP to both of them!

That's why I have trust issues. I don't believe promises that only come in words. And I don't believe in long-distance relationship.

its sad thou... she is waiting for her lover, but he never came back... 😔

What a heart breaking story

"Excellent story of "Queen Mary,"

Very sad story.

So sad. RIP Mary.

I'm really curious about the man though. Did he die in the Korean war or was her just a horrible person who abandoned her?

This is so sad. I wonder how many other women were waiting for the one who said they would return to marry them. How sad.

Poor Mary. Such a sad life

Thats truly heartbreaking, I wonder who the officer was…

In postwar Japan and Korea, soldiers of the occupying forces abducted women in the streets or broke into their homes and abducted them. The panicked government consulted with the occupying forces and set up a brothel for the occupying soldiers, taking the form of a request from the occupying forces. However, the Recreation and Amusement Association was abolished on March 26, 1946, after which the number of Japanese women victimized by occupying soldiers increased eightfold. After the Korean War began, Korea was even more disastrous. UN soldiers and Korean soldiers abducted women and threw them into brothels. Their stories were used as subjects for women impersonating comfort women to create their own stories.

I feel like he died in war, and they hadn’t yet married so she wasn’t informed

Japan should apologize to these women and give them a good amount of money and pay their medical bills and wave nursing home fees. This happened to American nurses, women from the Philippines, Korean women, and so many others.

What a very sad story. Poor Mary. How could her brother drive her out and leave her with nothing?

It’s fault of his brother to kick her out after there father died. She will not be like that unfortunate life she have So sad for her

I just watched documentary about this.

Wow I did not know that Japan did that to their own women! I knew about the Korean comfort women that they took during the war, but didn’t realize they did it to their own people as well…

What a sad story. 😥

Such a tragic story💔😢

So sad for her 😢

Men are not man enough to keep their promise towards a woman. I feel bad that this Ajumma was given false hope by that soldier and for years she kept on wandering the streets. Her brother was an asshole for droving her away on their own estate and properties.

Mens war always women pays the price..... i wonder if the soldier died or didnt come back for her.... imaged he died she would have waited for all these years for nothing.

Heartbreaking.

This is so sad😢

Really heartbreaking

Very sad 😢

There a rock group called a Mana , they sing a song called “ El muelle de San Blas “ it’s about a fisherman who promised a girl he would marry her , she had all her wedding attire , when days before the wedding he left but never came back , by drowning or choice , she put on her wedding dress and waited for him decades , just like Mary she got old but always kept her hope for her boyfriend to returned . This story takes place in the state of Nayarit in Mexico.

Ohhhhh my God 😮 me having a cup,of coffee before I go to the gym , I figure I’ll listen to this story . There I am trying to drink more c4 powder than usual to gain my motivation back . This was such an awfully sad story smh . May Mary RIP. Some countries are like a whole punishment to the soul smh.

What a sad life for Mary.

We all have our own unique life paths.

Too bad she couldn’t quiet inquire about the officer to see if he was living or least or at least dead that way she could’ve moved on more than moved on and she there’s a good chance you might’ve and said it’s a Long chance but she could’ve tried to see if she could’ve moved away from the area and the reputation and might’ve gotten a you know had a relationship later on in life instead That did not have any preconceived notions and if this officer was living shame on him for promising something he knew was not gonna be able to put Fulfill and you know what her occupation was so it was just plain cruel to promise or something when you know you were not gonna be able to do it.

wow that is just so sad.

Not to diminish the suffering of the Japanese victims, but I wish the channel creator had went a little deeper in to the history of 'Comfort Woman'. Or at least touched on the fact that the majority of 'Comfort Women' were not Japanese and they weren't tricked in to it with the promise of paid employment. The majority of 'Comfort Women' were Korean (Under Japanese protectorate/rule) and the rest were mainly from countries like China, Taiwan, other parts of Asia and Indonesia where Japan's military were stationed/occupying. The lowest number of victims were from Japan. Contrary to the video's description, the vast majority of 'Comfort Women' over all weren't meant for Americans. They were kidnapped and forced to be sexual slaves to the Japanese military, beginning from before the first world.war. The Japanese military treated them as non-human military equipment. They would be assigned to a camp/battalion and would be taken wherever their Japanese owner went. They were labelled and inventoried as 'units of war supplies'. The Japanese military were fond of referring to these sexual slaves as 'public toilets'. They were continuously raped, tortured, brutalized, more than half of them were murdered, executed or left to die from diseases and physical injuries caused by the relentless sexual assaults, horrific physical abuse and starvation. They did unspeakable things to these, like making it a point of kidnapping and enslaving little girls who weren't even old enough to menstruate, in order to ensure they were virgins, in an attempt to lower the risk of contraction of venereal diseases. There are also testimonies on record of Japanese soldiers cannibalizing their camp's slaves when they were low on rations. When the Japanese practice of using 'Comfort Women' was finally ended, those who survived were permanently damaged, mentally and physically and most were infertile as a result of what they endured during enslavement. A lot of the survivors made their way back home, only to be revictimized by the stigma of having been sexually assaulted. They were ostracized, vilified, assaulted and cursed. Many of them had difficulty finding employment and were disowned by their families, or driven out of their communities, leaving them without any means other than prostitution and/or begging in the street in order to eat and have shelter. My heart goes out to all the survivors and I pray the ones who didn't make it out alive are at peace, wherever they are.

Why aren't the men ever held to account? The women deserved so much better & I hope some of them did get genuine comfort in later life.

Sad sad story.

I wonder if the man she loved died and was not able to return to her, OR did he betray her? Upsets me, the Japanese government did not compensate those comfort girls when it was outawed.

So very sad. 🥺

Human tragedy.

55 a day??? Those dudes must have finished QUICK!!!!

Rest in peace mary and genjiro💔

Where there's war, there is death, but solders tend to take it as a chance to commit crimes on children, women, and innocent people.

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Mary was first victim of her awful brother who pushed her on the street.

It's best to never believe a person's words, people lie so much, mostly they don't mean much of what they say. Most of the men who patronized the comfort women were most likely married with a wife & children. Never wait for anyone, to start your life. Most likely, they are somewhere else having a good life. I can nearly 100% guarantee that he isn't laying in a muddy ditch, somewhere, crying out your name.

How one lie can ruin a person's life

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