Introduction Any disparity in power makes physical and sexual abuse more likely. This is especially true of the large prevalence of rape during the World War II period. Sexual abuse, in the form of rape, inflicted on Filipino comfort women during the war is considered a crime against humanity. However, it remained unreported and unacknowledged for years after the war. Rape is identified as criminal sexual intercourse without the victim's consent. Even so, given all the consequences of rape for victims, this definition is quite limited. Investigations into the psychological consequences of rape among Filipino comfort women have found that it produces psychological difficulties, such as depression, social phobia, sexual dysfunction, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The impact of rape went far beyond the immediate effects of physical assault and has long-term consequences. Demographic Characteristics Some women were as young as ten years old. These women were often deceived with offers of legitimate work or kidnapped from their homes or streets by Japanese soldiers and forced into so-called comfort homes. The names and cities differed between the tales, but the accounts of perversion and torture remained frighteningly consistent. Rape CharacteristicsMany women were forcibly taken by Japanese soldiers while they were in their homes. Some were taken while they were at home while others were working; or run an errand for their parents. Many of them were still single but there were other married women. A woman from Bicol was sleeping when the Japanese came to their village and rounded up all the men and young women and took them to primary schools......center of paper......namannAsia.Jamil, AM ( 2005). The women of the lake. Manila: National Commission on Culture and the Arts. Porterfield, K. A. (1996). Talk openly about PTSD with the consequences of trauma. New York: Facts on File. Sancho, N. (Ed.). (1998). War crimes against Asian women. Manila: Asian Women's Human Rights Council. Smith, S. T. (2001). The rescue. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.Ussher, J.M. & Baker, CD (eds.). (1993). Psychological perspectives on sexual problems: New directions in theory and practice. New York: Routledge.Villadolid, O. S. (2005). Surviving World War II. Pasig City: Colet-Villadolid Pub.Ward, CA (1995). Attitudes toward rape: Feminist and social psychological perspectives. London: SagePublications.Wilson, J.P. & Keane, TM (eds.). (1997). Evaluation of psychological posttraumatic stress disorder. New York: Guilford Press.