Minju Park is a Korean-American journalist based in Chicago. She’s currently an associate producer for LAist Studios.
Joseph Aflleje-Santos and his granddaughter Leialani Wihongi-Santos at All Souls Cemetery in Long Beach where many of their loved ones rest.If you're enjoying this article, you'll love our daily morning newsletter, How To LA. Every weekday, you'll get fresh, community-driven stories that catch you up with our independent local news., we hear the story of Leialani Wihongi-Santos, who is CHamoru, Māori, Korean and German and grew up on the island of Guam.
Growing up on Guam, she learned about Imperial Japan’s occupation of the island and was taught that the CHamoru people were rescued when U.S. forces overpowered Japan’s military at the end of World War II.Later, while attending college in the U.S., Wihongi-Santos began to question this simplistic narrative. She realized her Asian American peers were unaware of this history – of CHamoru and other Pacific Islander experiences.
Imperial Japan’s military also set up and carried out a system of sexual slavery and institutional rape before and during World War II. The euphemism for these victims is “comfort women.” Members of Aflleje-Santos’ family were forced to become comfort women.
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