Accounts of the comfort women, including this one, suggest that up to 200,000 women were involved. Women were designated as without value. They lost all claim on their bodies, which were confiscated as war matériel. They became sexual slaves, raped, for the Japanese imperial army. Many died at the front line, or were murdered for sport or to ensure nobody would live to tell the tale. Penniless, displaced and dispossessed, many of those who survived could never return home. Few married, and few could have children.