For one thing, the Japanese have deliberately destroyed historical documents from the war. In addition, says Chu Te-lan, an assistant researcher at Academia Sinica's Sun Yat-Sen Institute for Social Sciences and Philosophy, "Taiwanese comfort women have a much deeper feeling of shame about this than their Korean counterparts." According to Chu, the details of this tragic episode in Taiwan's colonial history have not been fully brought to light.
台灣控訴的動作較慢，主要原因在日本人刻意地湮滅二次大戰期間的史料，而「比起韓國，台籍慰安婦更羞於談論己身遭遇」，中研院中山人文社會科學研究所副研究員朱德蘭表示，台灣殖民歷史的這段慘痛經歷，從未被好好整理發掘。