The Transnational Redress Movement For The Victims Of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery

Author : Pyong Gap Min,Thomas Chung,Sejung Sage Yim
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110639872

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The Transnational Redress Movement for the Victims of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery by Pyong Gap Min,Thomas Chung,Sejung Sage Yim Pdf

This book examines the redress movement for the victims of Japanese military sexual slavery in South Korea, Japan, and the U.S. comprehensively. The Japanese military forcefully mobilized about 80,000-200,000 Asian women to Japanese military brothels and forced them into sexual slavery during the Asian-Pacific War (1932-1945). Korean "comfort women" are believed to have been the largest group because of Korea’s colonial status. The redress movement for the victims started in South Korea in the late 1980s. The emergence of Korean "comfort women" to society to tell the truth beginning in 1991 and the discovery of Japanese historical documents, proving the responsibility of the Japanese military for establishing and operating military brothels by a Japanese historian in 1992 accelerated the redress movement for the victims. The movement has received strong support from UN human rights bodies, the U.S. and other Western countries. It has also greatly contributed to raising people’s consciousness of sexual violence against women at war. However, the Japanese government has not made a sincere apology and compensation to the victims to bring justice to the victims.

Author : Pyong Gap Min
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781978814981

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Korean "Comfort Women" by Pyong Gap Min Pdf

Arguably the most brutal crime committed by the Japanese military during the Asia-Pacific war was the forced mobilization of 50,000 to 200,000 Asian women to military brothels to sexually serve Japanese soldiers. The majority of these women died, unable to survive the ordeal. Those survivors who came back home kept silent about their brutal experiences for about fifty years. In the late 1980s, the women’s movement in South Korea helped start the redress movement for the victims, encouraging many survivors to come forward to tell what happened to them. With these testimonies, the redress movement gained strong support from the UN, the United States, and other Western countries. Korean “Comfort Women” synthesizes the previous major findings about Japanese military sexual slavery and legal recommendations, and provides new findings about the issues “comfort women” faced for an English-language audience. It also examines the transnational redress movement, revealing that the Japanese government has tried to conceal the crime of sexual slavery and to resolve the women’s human rights issue with diplomacy and economic power.

Author : Peipei Qiu
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774825467

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Contemporary Chinese Studies by Peipei Qiu Pdf

Chinese Comfort Women is the first English-language book featuring accounts of the “comfort station” experiences of women from Mainland China, forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during the Asia-Pacific War. Through personal narratives from twelve survivors, this book reveals the unfathomable atrocities committed against women during the war and correlates the proliferation of “comfort stations” with the progression of Japan’s military offensive. Drawing on investigative reports, local histories, and witness testimony, Chinese Comfort Women puts a human face on China’s war experience and on the injustices suffered by hundreds of thousands of Chinese women.

Author : Peipei Qiu
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774825474

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Chinese Comfort Women by Peipei Qiu Pdf

Chinese Comfort Women is the first English-language book featuring accounts of the “comfort station” experiences of women from Mainland China, forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during the Asia-Pacific War. Through personal narratives from twelve survivors, this book reveals the unfathomable atrocities committed against women during the war and correlates the proliferation of “comfort stations” with the progression of Japan’s military offensive. Drawing on investigative reports, local histories, and witness testimony, Chinese Comfort Women puts a human face on China’s war experience and on the injustices suffered by hundreds of thousands of Chinese women.

Author : Caroline Norma
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472507808

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The Japanese Comfort Women and Sexual Slavery during the China and Pacific Wars by Caroline Norma Pdf

The Japanese military was responsible for the sexual enslavement of thousands of women and girls in Asia and the Pacific during the China and Pacific wars under the guise of providing 'comfort' for battle-weary troops. Campaigns for justice and reparations for 'comfort women' since the early 1990s have highlighted the magnitude of the human rights crimes committed against Korean, Chinese and other Asian women by Japanese soldiers after they invaded the Chinese mainland in 1937. These campaigns, however, say little about the origins of the system or its initial victims. The Japanese Comfort Women and Sexual Slavery during the China and Pacific Wars explores the origins of the Japanese military's system of sexual slavery and illustrates how Japanese women were its initial victims.

Author : Ako Inuzuka
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498598385

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Non-Western Colonization, Orientalism, and the Comfort Women by Ako Inuzuka Pdf

Non-Western Colonization, Orientalism, and the 'Comfort Women: The Collective Memory of Sexual Slavery under the Japanese Imperial Military examines the collective memory of sexual slavery under the Japanese Imperial Military in Japan over the past seventy-five years. Euphemistically known as the "comfort women," tens of thousands of young females were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers during the Asia-Pacific War. The majority of these women are believed to have been deceitfully or forcibly taken from Korea, a former Japanese colony. The ways in which sexual slavery has been remembered in Japan lies at the root of a long-standing diplomatic conflict between Japan and South Korea and has fueled a "memory war" among Japanese scholars and activists. The author argues that Korean "comfort women" have been exoticized in the collective memory similarly to "Oriental" women's presentations by Western Orientalists. This book is a comprehensive analysis of the memory of sexual slavery in Japan, examining various artifacts produced since the end of the Asia-Pacific War, including nonfiction books, novels, newspaper articles, popular and documentary films, and a commemorative museum. It provides novel insights into a decade old international and domestic controversy.

Author : Ñusta Carranza Ko
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789819917945

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New Ways of Solidarity with Korean Comfort Women by Ñusta Carranza Ko Pdf

This book provides a space for victims’ testimonies and memories, engages with their experiences, reflects upon the redress movement, and evaluates policies related to Korean comfort women as victims and survivors from the international, domestic, and bilateral realms. Collectively, this edited volume aims to further diversify the scholarship on comfort women, contribute to the existing literature on social movements related to comfort women and other related studies, and, in doing so, challenge the politicization of comfort women. With this objective, the book presents scholarship from interdisciplinary fields that revisit the meaning of victims’ testimonies, memories, and remembrance, social movement efforts on comfort women, and the related role of government, governance, and society by reflecting on the truths about the historical past. In so doing, it initiates new conversations among political scientists, sociologists, historians, and cultural and literary scholars. What do victims’ testimonies reveal about new ways of imagining historical memory of Korean comfort women? How are memories of comfort women and their experiences remembered in social movements, literature, and cultural practices? Where is the place of comfort women’s experiences in politics, diplomacy, and global affairs? These are some of the questions that guide the contributions to this edited volume, which seek to establish new ways of solidarity with comfort women.

Author : Rumiko Nishino,Puja Kim,Akane Onozawa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351690638

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Denying the Comfort Women by Rumiko Nishino,Puja Kim,Akane Onozawa Pdf

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 f 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 froms uing 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.

Author : C. Sarah Soh
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226768045

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The Comfort Women by C. Sarah Soh Pdf

In an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale, the tragedy of the so-called comfort women—mostly Korean women forced into prostitution by the Japanese army—endures as one of the darkest events of World War II. These women have usually been labeled victims of a war crime, a simplistic view that makes it easy to pin blame on the policies of imperial Japan and therefore easier to consign the episode to a war-torn past. In this revelatory study, C. Sarah Soh provocatively disputes this master narrative. Soh reveals that the forces of Japanese colonialism and Korean patriarchy together shaped the fate of Korean comfort women—a double bind made strikingly apparent in the cases of women cast into sexual slavery after fleeing abuse at home. Other victims were press-ganged into prostitution, sometimes with the help of Korean procurers. Drawing on historical research and interviews with survivors, Soh tells the stories of these women from girlhood through their subjugation and beyond to their efforts to overcome the traumas of their past. Finally, Soh examines the array of factors— from South Korean nationalist politics to the aims of the international women’s human rights movement—that have contributed to the incomplete view of the tragedy that still dominates today.

Author : Sangmie Choi Schellstede
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Publishers
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015049702429

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Comfort Women Speak by Sangmie Choi Schellstede Pdf

Contributing to the continuing revelations, 19 women tell their stories of being forced into sexual service for Japanese soldiers during World War II. Also included are excerpts of United Nations reports and other recent commentary. The account begins the series Science and Human Rights. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Friedman S. J.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Prostitution
ISBN : 1782806113

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Silenced No More by Friedman S. J. Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Comfort women
ISBN : UOM:39015041647135

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War Crimes on Asian Women by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hideko Mitsui
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128103723

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Afterlives of War by Hideko Mitsui Pdf

Author : George L. Hicks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Asia
ISBN : UOM:39015035310781

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The Comfort Women by George L. Hicks Pdf

Over 100,000 women were victims of forced prostitution - Japanese military prostitution - during World War II. Unlike other war atrocities, the surviving comfort women were too ashamed to tell their stories, playing into the hands of a determined Japanese government cover-up. However, nearly 50 years after the war, the women began to speak up, scholars delved into archives, a key Japanese official confessed and the story came out, ultimately forcing the Japanese government to admit the truth.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Comfort women
ISBN : UCAL:B3926034

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War Victimization and Japan; International Public Hearing Report by Anonim Pdf