{"title":"Major Publications Included in Book Chapters (Reading List)","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110643480-017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110643480-017","url":null,"abstract":"Andrews, William. Daughters of the Dragon: A Comfort Woman’s Story. Seattle: Lake Union Publishing, 2014. Asian Women’s Fund. “Jugun Ianfu ni Sareta Gatanata Tsugunai no Tameni” [Compensation for Military Comfort Women]. Tokyo: Asian Women’s Fund, 1995. Bentley, Jerry H., and Herbert Ziegler. Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2010. Chinkin, Christine M. “Editorial Comments: Women’s International Tribunal on Japanese Military Sexual Slavery,” The American Journal of International Law 95 (2001): 335–341. Choi Schellstede, Sangmie. Comfort Women Speak: Testimony by Sex Slaves of the Japanese Military. New York and London: Holmes & Meier, 2000. Chung, Chin-song. Inbongun Sungnoyeje [The Japanese Military Sexual Slavery System], Second Edition. Seoul: Seoul National University Publishing Company, 2016. Cumings, Bruce. Korea’s Place in the Sun: A Modern History. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1997. Dolgopol, Ustinia, and Snehal Paranjape. Comfort Women: An Unfinished Ordeal: Report of a Mission. Geneva, Switzerland: International Commission of Jurists, 1995. Enloe, Cynthia. The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter: An Authoritative Text, Essays in Criticism and Scholarship, 3 ed. New York: W. W. Norton, 1988. Hayashi, Hirofumi. “Disputes in Japan over the Japanese Military ‘Comfort Women’ System and Its Perception in History.” The Annals of American Academy of Political and Social Science 617 (May 2008): 123–132. Hayashi, Hirofumi. Nihongun “Ianfu” Mondai-no Kakushi (The Essence of the Japanese Military Comfort Women Issue). Tokyo: Kadensha,2015. Hein, Laura. “Savage Irony: The Imaginative Power of the ‘Military Comfort Women’ in the 1990s.” Gender and History 11, no. 2 (July 1999): 336–372. Henson, Maria Rosa. Comfort Women: A Filipina’s Story of Prostitution and Slavery under the Japanese Military. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1995. Hicks, George. The Comfort Women: Japan’s Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1990. Jager, Sheila Miyoshi, and Rana Mitter, eds. Ruptured Histories: War, Memory, and the Post-Cold War in Asia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. Kim-Gibson, Dae Sil. Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women. Parkerburg, Iowa: Mid-Prairie Books, 1999. Kim, Il-myeon. Tenno no Guntai to Chosenjin Ianfu [The Emperor’s Army and the Korean “Comfort Women”]. Tokyo: San’ichi Sobo, 1992. Kaufmann, Gershen. The Psychology of Shame: Theory and Treatment of Shame-Based Syndromes. New York: Springer Publishing Company, 1989. Kent, Susan Kingsley. 1999. Gender and Power in Britain, 1640–1990. London and New York: Routledge.","PeriodicalId":184780,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Military Sexual Slavery","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129890568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Initiatives by Citizens of a Perpetrator State: Advocating to UN Human Rights Bodies for the Rights of Survivors","authors":"Mina Watanabe","doi":"10.1515/9783110643480-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110643480-007","url":null,"abstract":"Concerned citizens in Japan have taken various actions in order to hold the government of Japan accountable for crimes and human rights violations committed during WWII under Japan’s military sexual slavery system, euphemistically called the “comfort women” system. In the early 1990s, citizens of Japan joined the redress movement initiated by the victims/survivors of the “comfort women” system and their supporters in victimized countries. Citizens and scholars began undertaking fact-finding research, while lawyers supported victims filing lawsuits against the Japanese government. With respect to international human rights bodies, in an attempt to make the government of Japan accountable under international human rights law, as early as 1992, attorney at-law, Mr Totsuka Etsuro, began providing information to the then-UN Commission on Human Rights and the then-Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. Violence against women, especially rape and sexual violence during war and armed conflict, was one of the biggest concerns of global women’s movements in the 1990s. The victims/survivors of Japan’s military sexual slavery system who testified in international fora gave important impetus not only to women’s rights activists but also to those who specialized in human rights law. Since then, a number of recommendations on this matter have been issued by UN special rapporteurs, UN human rights treaty bodies and international human rights NGOs. The Violence Against Women in War Network Japan (VAWW-NET Japan)1 began submitting reports and lobbying UN Human Rights institutions in August 2002 following the December 2001 final judgement of the Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal for Japan’s Military Sexual Slavery delivered in The Hague, the Netherlands. The purpose of the first submission was to inform UN Human","PeriodicalId":184780,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Military Sexual Slavery","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130181784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acknowledgments","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110643480-001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110643480-001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":184780,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Military Sexual Slavery","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134473153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110643480-020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110643480-020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":184780,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Military Sexual Slavery","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134153336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tracing 28 Years of the Redress Movement Led by the Washington Coalition for Comfort Women Issues","authors":"J. Lee, D. L. Hahm","doi":"10.1515/9783110643480-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110643480-008","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the activities and significance of the Washington Coalition for Comfort Women Issues, Inc. (hereafter referred to as WCCW), a non-profit organization based in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. It will mainly focus on people closely related to the organization who have been a voice for victims of Japanese military sexual slavery from its inception in 1992 and up to the present. WCCW was founded as the first organization of its kind in the U.S. in a collaborative effort with Korean American groups in New York and Toronto, Canada.1 They have fought for the justice and dignity of the wartime victims euphemistically called “comfort women,” and provided support for those unable to defend their legal rights and human dignity. In 1992, the groundbreaking testimony by Hwang Keum-ju at the Korean Methodist Church of Greater Washington in Virginia sparked the beginning of WCCW’s activities. WCCW has worked with other organizations, elected officers, scholars, artists, and more throughout the years.We mention those names in this chapter and highlight their achievements. WCCW has endeavored to raise awareness of this issue from within the D.C. area in concert with the U.S. House of Representatives. Members of the U.S. House of Representatives who have helped with WCCW’s goals and activities include former and current Congressmen and Congresswomen, such as Mike Honda, the late Lane Evans, William Lipinski, Nancy Pelosi, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, and the 167 House representatives who co-sponsored to pass House Resolution 121.2 Other people who have helped raise awareness of this issue include Eli Rosenbaum, director of the U.S. Department of Justice; Susan Lee, Maryland State Senator; Mark Keam,Virginia House of Delegates; Retired Bishop Young J. Cho of the United Methodist Church; Emeritus Professor Bonnie Oh of Georgetown University; Margaret Stetz at the University of Delaware; Mindy Kotler, director of Asia Policy Point; Dennis Halpin, congressional","PeriodicalId":184780,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Military Sexual Slavery","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132203584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frontmatter","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110643480-fm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110643480-fm","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":184780,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Military Sexual Slavery","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130180943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Japanese Citizens’ and Civic Organizations’ Strong Support for the Redress Movement","authors":"P. Min","doi":"10.1515/9783110643480-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110643480-006","url":null,"abstract":"As of 2019, it has been 28 years since the redress movement for the victims of Japanese military sexual slavery formally started in South Korea. The redress movement has received global support, not only from Asian victim countries, but also from the United States and Western countries. Most importantly, it has received strong support from UN human rights bodies and many other international human rights organizations. The public testimonies of many “comfort women” survivors in Korea and other Asian countries since August 1991 and the discovery of key Japanese historical documents in January 1992 also forced the Japanese government to announce the so-called Kōno Statement in July 1993. In his statement, Kōno Yōhei, the Chief Cabinet Secretary of the Japanese government, acknowledged the Japanese military government’s responsibility for the forced mobilization of Asian “comfort women” and made a sincere apology. The Kōno Statement led members of the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan (hereafter referred to as the Korean Council) and other Asian redress activists to believe that the “comfort women” issue would be resolved successfully within a few years. However, the surprising reactionary turn of the Japanese government and neo-nationalist citizens with the emergence of historical revisionism since the middle of the 1990s has led them to increasingly reject the “comfort women” system as sexual slavery. The Japanese government has tried to resolve the “comfort women” issue twice, only by paying compensation to the victims of Japanese military sexual slavery. Despite all the documentary and testimonial evidence for military sexual slavery, the Japanese government has intentionally rejected the interpretation of “comfort women” as sexual slaves. A dozen UN human rights bodies and international human rights organizations, the United States, and several other countries have sent the Japanese government tough resolutions, telling it to take responsible actions as soon as possible. Nevertheless, the Japanese government has thus far not taken any significant measures to accommodate their recommendations. Given its near-religious nationalist ego, strongly supported by neo-nationalist organizations, the Japanese government is unlikely to acknowledge its predecessor’s crime of sexual slavery and make a sincere apology and compensation to the victims of Japanese military sexual slavery, the minimum requirements for resolving the “comfort women” issue.","PeriodicalId":184780,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Military Sexual Slavery","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129052176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Authors’ Bios","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110643480-018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110643480-018","url":null,"abstract":"Elise van den Hoven (www.elisevandenhoven.com) has a background in biology and HCI, and an interest in supporting everyday remembering through the design of interactive systems. She is associate professor in design) has a background in interaction design, and an interest in materiality and craft. She is currently doing a PhD at the University of Surrey. Cueb was created during her Masters' graduation project, supervised by Elise van den Hoven.","PeriodicalId":184780,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Military Sexual Slavery","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124148748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legacies of “Comfort Women”","authors":"Bonnie B. C. Oh","doi":"10.1515/9783110643480-011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110643480-011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":184780,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Military Sexual Slavery","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132806523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The “History Wars” and the “Comfort Woman” Issue: The Significance of Nippon Kaigi in the Revisionist Movement in Contemporary Japan","authors":"Tomomi Yamaguchi","doi":"10.1515/9783110643480-013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110643480-013","url":null,"abstract":"In December 2012, Abe Shinzō became Japan’s Prime Minister for the second time. From the beginning of his political career in 1993 as a new member of the House of Representatives from the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (hereafter, LDP), Abe has been a politician committed to historical revisionist causes. Both times that he served as the prime minister in 2006–2007 and then since 2012, Abe showed extensive interest in denying Japan’s responsibility over the “comfort woman” issue, and the issue gained lots of political attention, both in Japan and abroad.1 At the national political level, the revision of the Kōno statement issued on 4 August 1993, by then-Chief Cabinet Secretary, Kōno Yōhei, became the topic of intense discussion. The statement includes the phrase, “[a] government study has revealed that in many cases they were recruited against their own will, through coaxing, coercion, etc., and that, at times, administrative/military personnel directly took part in the recruitments.”2 Rightwing forces argue to this day that the Kōno statement’s indication that the “comfort women” were forcibly recruited by the Japanese military is false. After the building of the “comfort woman” statue (Statue of Peace) in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul in December 2011, the Japanese right-wing and the government have been obsessed with “comfort women” statues and memorials in different overseas locations, given their heavy interest in the international reputation of Japan. The building of the first “comfort woman” memorial in the U.S. in front of a library in Palisades Park, New Jersey, in 2010, gained attention of Japanese conservatives in spring 2012. Subsequently, statues were built in","PeriodicalId":184780,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Military Sexual Slavery","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131830470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}