Denying the Comfort Women : The Japanese State's Assault on Historical Truth / edited by Nishino Rumiko, Kim Puja and Onozawa Akane ; with the Violence against Women in War Research Action Center ; adapted from the Japanese by Robert Ricketts.
| Call Number | 940.5405082095 D417 |
| Title | Denying the Comfort Women : The Japanese State's Assault on Historical Truth / edited by Nishino Rumiko, Kim Puja and Onozawa Akane ; with the Violence against Women in War Research Action Center ; adapted from the Japanese by Robert Ricketts. |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xiv, 196 pages) |
| Series | Asia's Transformations |
| Contents | part, I Comfort women, the Kōno statement, and the quest for truth -- chapter Introduction / chapter 1 The Kōno statement -- Its historical significance and limitations / chapter 2 Forcible mobilization -- What survivor testimonies tell us / chapter Insight on the issues -- Coercion, sexual violence, and rape centers in Yu County, Shanxi Province / chapter 3 The comfort women and state prostitution / chapter Insight on the issues -- Guilty verdicts for the traffickers of comfort women—the Shizuoka and Nagasaki incidents / part, II Why the Asian Women’s Fund was not a solution -- chapter 4 The failure of the Asian Women’s Fund -- The Japanese government’s legal responsibility and the colonial legacy / chapter Insight on the issues -- The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, Class B and C war criminals, and Japan’s Peace Treaty obligations / chapter 5 A reconciliation discourse that shuns survivors / chapter Insight on the issues -- The mobilization of Korean adolescents as comfort women—colonialism and the victimization of teenage girls / part, III A realistic settlement is a settlement that victimized women can accept -- chapter 6 Comfort women, textbooks, and the rise of “new right” revisionism / chapter 7 The Japan–ROK claims settlement and the comfort women / chapter 8 Listen to survivors’ voices! / chapter Epilogue -- The struggle for justice continues / |
| Summary | "Planned, instituted and run by the Japanese Imperial Military during the Asia-Pacific War, the "comfort women" system remains hugely controversial. Although political leaders often contest the role of coercion, many argue that the 'comfort women' were mobilized forcibly, through processes of abduction and deception.Utilising archival research, court testimonies and eyewitness accounts of both survivors and military and civilian personnel, this book argues its case in three ways. Part I analyses the modalities of coercion employed by the authorities and investigates the historical differences and continuities between licensed peacetime prostitution and wartime sexual slavery. Part II then examines the failures of the Asian Women's Fund to resolve the "comfort women" issue, whilst Part III explores the removal of "comfort women" content from school history texts after the late 1990s and details Japan's diplomatic efforts to prevent war victims from suing the post-war state. Presenting a strong argument in opposition to the revisionist school of thought, this book ultimately concludes that a realistic settlement would see a victim-oriented solution that the survivors can accept.Written by leading Japanese and zainichi Korean scholars, Denying the Comfort Women will be of huge interest to students and scholars of modern Japanese studies, gender studies, women's studies and Asian history."--Provided by publisher. |
| Added Author | Kim, Puja, editor. Nishino, Rumiko, editor. Onozawa, Akane, editor. Ricketts, Robert, translator. Violence against Women in War Research Action Center, creator. |
| Subject | Comfort women Japan History. Prostitution Japan History. |
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| Summary | "Planned, instituted and run by the Japanese Imperial Military during the Asia-Pacific War, the "comfort women" system remains hugely controversial. Although political leaders often contest the role of coercion, many argue that the 'comfort women' were mobilized forcibly, through processes of abduction and deception.Utilising archival research, court testimonies and eyewitness accounts of both survivors and military and civilian personnel, this book argues its case in three ways. Part I analyses the modalities of coercion employed by the authorities and investigates the historical differences and continuities between licensed peacetime prostitution and wartime sexual slavery. Part II then examines the failures of the Asian Women's Fund to resolve the "comfort women" issue, whilst Part III explores the removal of "comfort women" content from school history texts after the late 1990s and details Japan's diplomatic efforts to prevent war victims from suing the post-war state. Presenting a strong argument in opposition to the revisionist school of thought, this book ultimately concludes that a realistic settlement would see a victim-oriented solution that the survivors can accept.Written by leading Japanese and zainichi Korean scholars, Denying the Comfort Women will be of huge interest to students and scholars of modern Japanese studies, gender studies, women's studies and Asian history."--Provided by publisher. |
| Contents | part, I Comfort women, the Kōno statement, and the quest for truth -- chapter Introduction / chapter 1 The Kōno statement -- Its historical significance and limitations / chapter 2 Forcible mobilization -- What survivor testimonies tell us / chapter Insight on the issues -- Coercion, sexual violence, and rape centers in Yu County, Shanxi Province / chapter 3 The comfort women and state prostitution / chapter Insight on the issues -- Guilty verdicts for the traffickers of comfort women—the Shizuoka and Nagasaki incidents / part, II Why the Asian Women’s Fund was not a solution -- chapter 4 The failure of the Asian Women’s Fund -- The Japanese government’s legal responsibility and the colonial legacy / chapter Insight on the issues -- The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, Class B and C war criminals, and Japan’s Peace Treaty obligations / chapter 5 A reconciliation discourse that shuns survivors / chapter Insight on the issues -- The mobilization of Korean adolescents as comfort women—colonialism and the victimization of teenage girls / part, III A realistic settlement is a settlement that victimized women can accept -- chapter 6 Comfort women, textbooks, and the rise of “new right” revisionism / chapter 7 The Japan–ROK claims settlement and the comfort women / chapter 8 Listen to survivors’ voices! / chapter Epilogue -- The struggle for justice continues / |
| Subject | Comfort women Japan History. Prostitution Japan History. |
| Multimedia |