Voices of the Korean Comfort Women

2023-01-17
 |  History
Voices of the Korean Comfort Women

Author: Chungmoo Choi

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

ISBN: 9781000750065

Category: History

Page: 309

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An innumerable number of young women were taken from Korea during the Pacific War to provide sexual services to Japanese soldiers. These women, including teenagers, euphemistically referred to in Japanese documents as Comfort Women, were shipped to the vastly expanded battlefronts throughout the Japan-occupied territories covering Northern China to Myanmar and to the South Pacific Islands. Many of these girls died, were killed or abandoned during and after the war, but a small percentage of them returned only to face yet another devastating war at home and lasting social stigma. In Voices of the Korean Comfort Women, nine survivors tell their traumatic life stories as to how they were taken, how they had been treated with atrocities at the Comfort Stations, and how they had survived through not only the Pacific War but also the Korean War and beyond. These often-harrowing personal testimonies are each expanded by the interviewer’s observational notes, thereby providing poignant contextual information. This English translation of vital oral history, underpinned with theoretically informed guides, will be invaluable to students and scholars of Asian history, the Pacific War and wartime sexual violence against women as well as those interested in historical trauma and human rights.

dis-comfort women

2019-07-12
 |  Poetry
dis-comfort women

Author: Carolyn Im

Publisher: Lulu.com

ISBN: 9780359718832

Category: Poetry

Page: 80

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dis-comfort women is a book of poems, drawings, and historical writing based on primary documents and research surrounding South Korean ?comfort women, ? who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II.

Voices of the Korean Minority in Postwar Japan

2018-12-07
 |  History
Voices of the Korean Minority in Postwar Japan

Author: Erik Ropers

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9780429880803

Category: History

Page: 228

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Shedding new light on how the histories of zainichi Koreans have been written, consumed, and discussed, this book addresses the roots of postwar debates concerning the wartime experiences of Koreans in Japan. Providing an overview of the complicated historiography, it explores the experiences of Koreans located at Ground Zero in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as the history and processes that coerced Korean women into military prostitution. These debates and controversies continue to attract attention regionally and globally, and as this book demonstrates, they are deeply embedded in ideas dating back decades earlier. By tracing the roots of these debates in historical writings from local history groups to zainichi and Japanese scholars, we may see how written histories have been used for particular social, political, or cultural purposes, and how they have lent support to certain interpretations and memories of past events across the political spectrum. Interdisciplinary at its core, Voices of the Korean Minority in Postwar Japan will appeal to audiences including those interested in modern Japanese and Korean history, historiography and methodology, and memory studies.

Zainichi Korean Women in Japan

2018-12-10
 |  Social Science
Zainichi Korean Women in Japan

Author: Jackie J. Kim-Wachutka

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9780429013003

Category: Social Science

Page: 266

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Presenting the voices of a unique group within contemporary Japanese society—Zainichi women—this book provides a fresh insight into their experiences of oppression and marginalization that over time have led to liberation and empowerment. Often viewed as unimportant and inconsequential, these women’s stories and activism are now proving to be an integral part of both the Zainichi Korean community and Japanese society. Featuring in-depth interviews from 1994 to the present, three generations of Zainichi Korean women—those who migrated from colonial Korea before or during WWII and the Asia-Pacific War and their Japan-born descendants—share their version of history, revealing their lives as members of an ethnic minority. Discovering voices within constricting patriarchal traditions, the women in this book are now able to tell their history. Ethnography, interviews, and the women’s personal and creative writings offer an in-depth look into their intergenerational dynamics and provide a new way of exploring the hidden inner world of migrant women and the different ways displacement affects subsequent generations. This book goes beyond existing Anglophone and Japanese literatures, to explore the lives of the Zainichi Korean women. As such, it will be invaluable to students and scholars of Japanese and Korean history, culture and society, as well as ethnicity and Women’s Studies.

Stories that Make History

2020-08-24
 |  History
Stories that Make History

Author: The Research Team of the War

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

ISBN: 9783110670615

Category: History

Page: 333

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What would it be like if your existence was erased for half a century? This is the reality for the Korean comfort girls-women whose lives had been erased since the time of the expansion of comfort stations by the Japanese military in 1937. This book is an effort to bring these women back to life and to make their voices, experiences and memories available to future generations. The experiences of Korean comfort girls-women are a paradigmatic example of how military sexual violence can obliterate the dignity of women and shame them into nonexistence. This book examines how the turning of their innocence into inadequacy, actively by the Japanese government and passively by the Korean government and its people, and also by the world, compounded their long, miserable suffering for half a century until Kim Hak-sun broke the silence in 1991 with the support of Korean activists. The relentless and courageous efforts of Korean comfort girls-women and activists on the road to healing and justice are shared here. These efforts made it possible for us to hear their horrific stories, which are embedded with numerous and intense traumas, allowing them to unfold and be shared on the road to justice and healing.

Comfort Women Activism

2020-08-04
 |  History
Comfort Women Activism

Author: Eika Tai

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

ISBN: 9789888528455

Category: History

Page: 208

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Comfort Women Activism follows the movement championed by pioneer activists in Japan to demonstrate how their activism has kept a critical interpretation of the atrocities against women committed before and during World War II alive. The book shows how the challenges faced by the activists have evolved from the beginning of their uphill battles all the way to contemporary times. They were able to change social attitudes and get their message across. Yet the ambiguous position of post–World War II Japan’s government—which has consistently rejected any sign of guilt over its imperialist past—has kept the activists on their toes. Pivotal and serendipitous turning points have also played a crucial role. In particular, in the early 1990s, the post-Soviet world order assisted in creating the appropriate conditions for the movement to gather transnational support. These conditions have eroded over time; yet due to the activists’ fidelity to survivors, the movement has persisted to this day. Tai uses the activists’ narratives to show the multifaceted aspects of the movement. By measuring these narratives against scholarly debates, she argues that comfort women activism in Japan could be called a new form of feminism. “A manuscript of this depth covering such a range of material about the comfort women movement has not previously been available in English. I am deeply impressed by the author’s scholarly commitment and humanitarian compassion. The accounts provided in the book are particularly moving, putting a human face on the transnational comfort women movement that has had a global impact.” —Peipei Qiu, Vassar College “Eika Tai urges a postcolonial understanding of how activists in Japan came to embrace the issue of ‘comfort women,’ make it their own, and engage on a transnational, multigenerational effort. Her book is an absolutely clear rejection of those who portray this historical topic as activism meant to ‘hate Japan.’ Instead, she claims that this issue is at the heart of a divided Japan.” —Alexis Dudden, University of Connecticut

Voices from the Contemporary Japanese Feminist Movement

2022-08-15
 |  Political Science
Voices from the Contemporary Japanese Feminist Movement

Author: Emma Dalton

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9789811922282

Category: Political Science

Page: 141

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This book introduces six key influential feminist activists from Japan’s contemporary feminist movement and examines Japanese women’s experience of and contribution to the international #MeToo movement. Set against a backdrop of pervasive sexual inequality in Japanese society—on a scale that makes Japan an outlier in Asia as well as the rest of the advanced democratic world—this book offers a snapshot of Japan’s contemporary feminist movement and the issues it faces, including, primarily, sexual violence and harassment of women and girls. The six feminist activists interviewed to create this snapshot all work toward eradicating sexual violence against women and girls—they are: Kitahara Minori (instigator of the Flower Demo and public commentator), Yamamoto Jun (activist for sex crime law amendments), Nitō Yumeno (advocate for sexually exploited girls), Tsunoda Yukiko (feminist lawyer), Mitsui Mariko (former politician and current activist), and Yang-Ching-Ja (comfort women activist).

American Soldiers Witnessed Korean Comfort Women- "Flowers of the War"

2020-01-28
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American Soldiers Witnessed Korean Comfort Women-

Author: Kiyoshi Hosoya

Publisher:

ISBN: 9798605543893

Category:

Page: 190

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Battlefields are muddy, sweaty and bloody. So-called comfort women were there during WWII. They were "flowers" blooming at the battlefields, bringing comfort and peace to soldiers.More than 45 years since the end of the war Korean self-proclaimed comfort women have come forward, not as "Flowers" but as abused victims of the Japanese Military. Their stories spread one-sidedly and worldwide. The issue is still argued in the U.N., USA etc.Hostile American and Japanese military men met the comfort women, and left their witnesses. This book contains the 20 Japanese statements and two official reports of the U.S. Army. It's very late to publicize the voices of the men's side and the third party, but even now the book surely contributes to understanding the women/disputes, and bringing solutions of the long-standing issue.

Non-Western Colonization, Orientalism, and the Comfort Women

2021-06
 |  History
Non-Western Colonization, Orientalism, and the Comfort Women

Author: Ako Inuzuka

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

ISBN: 9781498598385

Category: History

Page: 259

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Non-Western Colonization, Orientalism, and the Comfort Women examines the collective memory of sexual slavery under the Japanese Imperial Military, a topic euphemistically known as the "comfort women." Examining various artifacts in Japan over the past decades, the author argues that Korean women were exoticized similarly to "Orientals" by Western Orientalists.

Avenues of Translation

2019-04-15
 |  Architecture
Avenues of Translation

Author: Regina Galasso

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

ISBN: 9781684480555

Category: Architecture

Page: 183

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Winner of the 2020 SAMLA Studies Book Award — Edited Collection Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities themselves are sites of ever-changing cultural and historical encounters. Predictable and surprising challenges and opportunities arise when city borders are crossed, voices meet, and artistic traditions find their counterparts. Using the Latin word for “translation,” translatio, or “to carry across,” as a point of departure, Avenues of Translation explores how translation perpetuates, diversifies, deepens, and expands the literary production of cities in their greater cultural context, and how translation shapes an understanding of and access to a city's past and present literary and cultural practices. Thinking about translation and the city is a way to tell the backstories of the cities, texts, and authors that are united by acts of translation. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.