The Philippine Daily Inquirer, one of the leading newspapers in the country, reported on a document dated March 1942 showing a medical report by a Japanese Army doctor on 19 Filipinas, with 13 names partially shown. The document also showed a sketch where a comfort house was located in Iloilo City.

The government of then President Corazon Aquino announces that “unlike the Korean, Japanese and even Indonesian women, the Filipino women were fortunately not forced to become ‘comfort’ women or sex slaves for the Japanese military,” which differed from the actual conclusion of the study done by a Filipino historian that he did not observe “large-scale” prostitution of Filipino women during the war.

The Task Force on Filipino Comfort Women (TFFCW) was established by GABRIELA, BAYAN Women’s Desk, Asian Women’s Human Rights Council and other organizations. They conducted research missions in Iloilo City, locating a Japanese Kempeitai who had acquired a Filipino name. He confirmed certain structures in the city as former “comfort” stations, including Paris Hotel, where several old women in the community testified to witnessing truckloads of women being brought to the place, and how the following day, some of the women would be found dead.

Several other newspapers would later report in the following month about women having been held in Japanese garrisons in several places in the country. Open calls on radio were done by advocates and telephone hotlines established for victims to come forward.

Maria Rosa Henson, the first Filipina to respond to the calls, faces the media to tell her story.

Philippine President Fidel V. Ramos reacts for the first time on the ‘comfort’ women issue, directing the Department of Foreign Affairs and two other government agencies to investigate the matter.

First survivors’ meeting of Filipino ‘comfort’ women to discuss the campaign and their welfare issues.

Five other women appear in a press conference: Gertrude Balisalisa, Anastasia Cortez, Amonita Balajadia, Francisca Macabebe and Tomasa Salinog. Several more articles would appear in various newspapers about “comfort” women in several places in the country.

Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa expresses his “sincere apology and remorse” over the conscription of Filipinos as “comfort” women to President Fidel V. Ramos during the latter’s state visit to Tokyo.

18 Filipino ‘comfort’ women file a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court in Japan to claim justice on behalf of all Filipino women victims, on the basis of the ‘comfort’ women system being a violation of the Hague Convention of 1907 and other international humanitarian laws.

The Japanese government releases its report admitting involvement in the massive conscription of Asian women and identified Filipinas as among the victims of their wartime sex slavery.

Twenty-eight more Lolas join the lawsuit.

TFFCW disbands to pave the way for the establishment of an organization directly composed of Filipino ‘comfort’ women.

Lila Pilipina is formally launched to give a direct voice to the victims and to serve as a national focal point of the campaign for justice for all Filipino women victims of Japanese wartime military sex slavery.

Lila Pilipina began holding assemblies and establishing regional chapters in different parts of the country where ‘comfort’ women survivors were found. It also began organizing regular demonstration rallies in front of the Japanese Embassy in Makati, Metro Manila.

The Japanese government announces the establishment of the Asian Women’s Fund.

Lila Pilipina Lolas join the World Conference on Women and the Women’s NGO Forum in Beijing, China.

“Lolas’ House,” a center for Filipino ‘comfort’ women, was established through the efforts of Lila Pilipina and the Asian Women’s Human Rights Council with support from Japanese solidarity groups. It served as a temporary shelter and venue for the organization’s various activities.

Lola Amonita Balajadia became the first Filipino ‘comfort’ woman survivor to speak before a United Nations body, delivering an oral intervention before the UN Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery in Geneva.

The Tokyo District Court held testimonial proceedings for two Filipino ‘comfort’ women.

The Tokyo District Court rejected the petition filed by the Lolas on the basis that “individuals cannot be subjects of rights under international law” and that the case was a “state-to-state matter.”

An appeal was filed at the Tokyo Appellate Court.

The Appellate Court upholds the Tokyo District Court decision.

Lila Pilipina carried on with the campaign for justice through lobbying with the Philippine Congress for laws and resolutions related to the ‘comfort’ women issue. Dialogues were also held with relevant government agencies for the inclusion of the ‘comfort’ women issue in history teachings and textbooks.

Lila Pilipina Lolas join a series of consultations organized by GABRIELA for the inclusion of the ‘comfort’ women issue in the Women’s Peace Agenda, submitted to both panels of the peace negotiations between the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP).

Lila Pilipina Lolas help out in the design of a ‘comfort’ woman statue on Roxas Boulevard, Manila, a few hundred meters from the Japanese Embassy.

The ‘comfort’ woman statue on Roxas Boulevard is removed by the City Government of Manila, apparently due to pressure from the Japanese government.

Lila Pilipina, together with the GABRIELA Women’s Partylist, files a House Resolution calling for an investigation of the statue’s removal.

Lila Pilipina starts a project to locate surviving ‘comfort’ women in various parts of the country. Digitization of resource materials and the Lolas’ artwork at the Lolas’ Center begins through the efforts of youth volunteers. Monthly meetings are renewed at the Center, attended by some of the Lolas and their descendants.

The ‘comfort’ woman statue is formally declared missing by Lila Pilipina and the Flowers for Lolas Campaign (an alliance of comfort women supporters) at the unveiling of a marker at the Redemptorist Church in Manila, where the statue was supposed to be re-installed.

A replica of the “Girl of Peace” statue was removed during the holiday season after its installation on December 28 in a private facility in San Pedro, Laguna, a province south of Manila.

Lila Pilipina issues a statement to the media protesting the removal of the statue.