Similar phenomena

Over time, couples will be more similar to each other. Increasingly feel happy, then they more likely to have a physical resemblance. Thus the results of research conducted psychologist Robert Zajonc from the University of Michigan as reported by Livescience.com, recently.

Zajonc to experiment, to test the phenomenon of life that the longer couples face more and more similar to each other. He analyzes the photographs when the newly married couple and the pictures 25 years later. Zajonc estimate, an elderly couple seemed more like because people will imitate the expression on his friend's face.

"In other words, if your spouse has a good sense of humor and lots of laughs, then he will develop laugh lines around their mouths. So did his partner," says Zajonc. "Other evidence also showed that men and women the possibility of initially attracted to someone who has the same personality."

In 2006, in one study, scientists at the University of Liverpool asked for volunteers to look at portraits of men and women and assess the personalities of people in the photo. The participants did not know where the couple live figure in the photographs, but most couples who live together long considered to have the most similar personalities.

The researchers concluded, has the personality traits of interest may exist correlation to make the face look attractive. In a study of twins, scientists from the University of Western Ontario found that study participants tended to choose partners with similar genes; partner of each of identical twins have a higher similarity than pairs of non-identical twins. 

Jugun Ianfu: Suffering that never ended

Jugun ianfu or Comfort women is a euphemism for women working in military brothels, especially those women who were forced into prostitution as a form of sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II.

Around 200,000 are estimated to have been involved, with estimates as low as 20,000 from some Japanese scholars and estimates of up to 410,000 from some Chinese scholars, but the exact numbers are still being researched and debated. Historians and researchers have stated that the majority were from Korea, China, Japan and Philippines, but women from Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan, Indonesia, and other Japanese-occupied territories were also used in "comfort stations". Stations were located in Japan, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, then Malaya, Thailand, then Burma, then New Guinea, Hong Kong, Macau, and what was then French Indochina.
Young women from countries under Japanese Imperial control were reportedly abducted from their homes. In some cases, women were also recruited with offers to work in the military. It has been documented that the Japanese military itself recruited women by force. However Japanese historian Ikuhiko Hata stated that there was no organized forced recruitment of comfort women by the Japanese government or military.
The number and nature of comfort women servicing the Japanese military during World War II is still being actively debated, and the matter is still highly political in both Japan and the rest of the Far East Asia.
Many military brothels were run by private agents and supervised by the Japanese Army. Some Japanese historians, using the testimony of ex-comfort women, have argued that the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy were either directly or indirectly involved in coercing, deceiving, luring, and sometimes kidnapping young women throughout Japan's Asian colonies and occupied territories.