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Denying the Comfort Women: The Japanese State's Assault on Historical Truth book cover

1st Edition

Denying the Comfort Women The Japanese State's Assault on Historical Truth

Edited By Rumiko Nishino, Puja Kim, Akane Onozawa Copyright 2018
288 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

288 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

288 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

INTRODUCTION, Nishino Rumiko, Kim Puja, Onozawa Akane

PART I: COMFORT WOMEN, THE KŌNO STATEMENT, AND THE QUEST FOR TRUTH

1. The Kōno Statement: Its Historical Significance and Limitations, Yoshimi Yoshiaki

2. Forcible Mobilization: What Survivor Testimonies Tell Us, Nishino Rumiko

Insight on the Issues: Coercion, Sexual Violence, and Rape Centers in Yu County, Shanxi Province, Ikeda Eriko

3. The Comfort Women and State Prostitution, Onozawa Akane

Insight on the Issues: Guilty Verdicts for the Traffickers of Comfort Women: The Shizuoka and Nagasaki Incidents, Maeda Akira

PART II: WHY THE ASIAN WOMEN’S FUND WAS NOT A SOLUTION

4. The Failure of the Asian Women’s Fund: The Japanese Government's Legal Responsibility and the Colonial Legacy, Kim Puja

Insight on the Issues: The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, Class B and C War Criminals, and Japan’s Peace Treaty Obligations, Hayashi Hirofumi

5. A Reconciliation Discourse that Shuns Survivors, Nishino Rumiko

Insight on the Issues: The Mobilization of Korean Adolescents as Comfort Women: Colonialism and the Victimization of Teenage Girls, Kim Puja

PART III: A REALISTIC SETTLEMENT IS A SETTLEMENT THAT VICTIMIZED WOMEN CAN ACCEPT

6. Comfort Women, Textbooks, and the Rise of "New Right" Revisionism, Tarwara Yoshifumi

7. The Japan–ROK Claims Settlement and the Comfort Women, Yoshizawa Fumitoshi

8. Listen to Survivors’ Voices! Yang Chingja

EPILOGUE: The Struggle for Justice Continues, Nishino Rumiko, Kim Puja, Onozawa Akane

APPENDICES: KEY POLICY DOCUMENTS ON THE COMFORT WOMEN

THE MOVEMENT FOR REDRESS: A CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS (1988–2017)

Biography

NISHINO Rumiko is co-representative of Violence against Women in War Research Action Center and a core member of the Center for Research and Documentation on Japan's War Responsibility and the Women's Active Museum on War and Peace.

KIM Puja is Professor of gender studies and gender history at the Institute of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan.

ONOZAWA Akane is Professor of modern Japanese history and gender studies at Rikkyō University in Tokyo, Japan.

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