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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Comfort Women"”.
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The comfort women: A study exploring the nuances of the movement
The term ‘comfort women' refers to victims who were abducted and forced into a system of sex trafficking that started as early as the 1930s until the end of World War II. The system was sanctioned by the Japanese government which saw its Imperial Army abducting an estimated 200,000 women and girls …
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Paving the Road to Peace: Transnational Solidarity for Survivors of Military Sexual Slavery by Imperial Japan through the Observation of the Wednesday Demonstration
… Demonstration is a weekly protest for former comfort women to demand an apology and legal compensation from the Japanese government. This thesis examines the different aspects of the comfort women movement through an analysis of the Wednesday Demonstration and its participants, drawing on …
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Victim, Aggressor, and Leader: Hierarchy, War Memory, and Foreign Policy of Postwar Japan
… regarding war responsibility and an apology for comfort women at the bilateral level with South Korea. I find that the boundaries of Japanese war memory, influenced by international hierarchy, have never been fixed, and vary over time. I argue that variations in the content and contestation of …
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Memorializing Wartime Rape During the Second World War
… the wake of World War II, the widespread rape of women, has been largely absent from this commemorative landscape. Now that rape is considered a crime of war, there have been isolated attempts to establish memorials for victims of rape. These attempts have appeared in different geographies, which …
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Flap of a Butterfly's Wings
… policy and law. The case study looks at the “Comfort Women” issue, an unresolved conflict from when the Japanese Imperial Army forced women from its colonies into sexual slavery during World War II. It is a fiercely debated topic throughout Asia, specifically between South Korea and Japan. …
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"""We are here because you were there"": Kinship and loss in 20th- and 21st-century Korean American Narratives"
… a queer kinship of Korean and Korean American women within the diaspora. For the second chapter I frame the mother-daughter relationship within Nora Okja Keller’s novel Comfort Woman (1997) through the mother’s queer desires that originate from relationships with the other Korean comfort women …
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Sexual violence against women in armed conflicts: towards a transitional justice perspective
… while their men were forced to watch. Then the women were held as the men were shot and bayoneted. Rape was being used quite deliberately as a weapon of subjection. As the women were being raped so were the Highlands. These women weren’t mothers and sisters like their own. They were savages, …