AMA Museum in Taichung | Peace and Women's Human Rights Special Exhibition | Exhibition Reservations

During World War II, the Japanese government used forced recruitment, brokers, deception, local-government selection, human trafficking, and other methods to send women from its colonies and military-occupied areas across Asia to "comfort stations," where they were made to serve as "comfort women" and provide sexual services to Japanese military personnel.

On December 7, 2000, judges and legal advisers experienced in international law and war-crimes proceedings, led by Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, former President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, convened the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery in Tokyo, a civil-society tribunal modeled on the Tokyo Trials. On December 12, the Tribunal found Emperor Hirohito and others guilty and called on the Japanese government to apologize, take legal measures, and educate future generations about this history so that it would not be repeated.

Only by confronting history can we prevent such tragedies from happening again.

In 2016, the Taipei Women's Rescue Foundation established Taiwan's first multifunctional museum grounded in the "comfort women" human-rights movement and combining women's empowerment with gender-equality education: the AMA Museum for Peace and Women's Human Rights.

At the end of 2021, the new AMA Museum used four exhibition areas-"Meeting the Grandmas in Their Youth," "Deception and Coercion," "We Are Them," and "Resilience in the Face of Discrimination"-to tell the survivors' life stories and present them as pioneers of #MeToo.

For this special exhibition, the JRF Taichung Office borrowed materials from the Taipei Women's Rescue Foundation. In addition to documenting the grandmas' lives and their struggle against discrimination as #MeToo pioneers, the exhibition recreates a mock courtroom from the 2000 civil-society Tokyo Tribunal and uses judgments, testimony, and historical images to trace their efforts to seek justice through litigation against Japan.

Taichung Office Special Exhibitions: Gender and Judicial Reform Word Cloud & Lin Ta-Yang's Port Town No. 13 Painting Series

Intimate-partner violence, deepfake pornography, non-consensual distribution of intimate images, and other forms of digital sexual violence have become recurring public concerns. What can we learn from the grandmas' struggle as #MeToo pioneers? What concepts matter when pursuing gender equality in the justice system? The Taichung Office's Gender and Judicial Reform word-cloud installation invites visitors to explore those questions together.

The exhibition also features painter Lin Ta-Yang's Port Town No. 13 series. His saturated colors and forceful brushwork record the resilience, beauty, hardship, and sorrow of marginalized people struggling simply to survive. Moved by deep concern for disadvantaged communities in Taiwan, Lin donated these works to support the JRF, turning art itself into action and planting seeds of justice on this land.

 

Exhibition Reservations

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Organizers

Judicial Reform Foundation
Taipei Women's Rescue Foundation
AMA Museum for Peace and Women's Human Rights