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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (3): 872–874.
Published: 01 August 1998
...Mary N. Layoun The comfort women: colonialism, war, and sex. Special issue of positions: east asia cultures critique 5:1 . Edited by Chungmoo Choi . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 1997 . xiv, 323 pp. $12.00. 872 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES be detected in what Carter calls...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 570–593.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Lin Li Abstract Using the Liji Alley Museum as a vantage point, this article examines the politics of remembering “comfort women” in contemporary China. I situate the museum within three contexts: Chinese museums on Japanese aggression, the global initiative to create women's museums, and the trans...
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in Curating “Comfort Women”: Historical Memory and Gender Politics in Contemporary China through the Liji Alley Museum
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 2 Bronze statue of three comfort women, with the pregnant woman on the leftmost side representing Park Young-shim. Photograph taken by author, March 2019.
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Journal of Asian Studies 11163065.
Published: 21 June 2024
...Royce Novak Abstract Vietnam has long eluded the geography of comfort women studies, yet its status as the first Southeast Asian territory and the first European colony occupied by Japan makes it a vital missing link in understanding how the comfort women system was adapted to Southeast Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 856–857.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Mark Caprio The Historical Perceptions of Korea and Japan: Its Origins and Points of the Issues Concerning Dokdo-Takeshima, Yasukuni Shrine, Comfort Women, and Textbooks . Edited by Dae-Song Hyun . Paju Book City, ROK : Nanam , 2008 . 465 pp. $26.90 (used cloth); eBook: Google and Hathi...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (1): 217–218.
Published: 01 February 2013
...Joy S. Kim Hearts of Pine: Songs in the Lives of Three Korean Survivors of the Japanese “Comfort Women.” . By Joshua D. Pilzer . New York : Oxford University Press , 2012 . xv, 191 pp. $99.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013 2013...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 1001–1003.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Lin Li Embodied Reckonings: “Comfort Women,” Performance, and Transpacific Redress . By Elizabeth W. Son . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 2018 . xx, 267 pp. ISBN: 9780472037100 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019 2019 While much...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1321–1323.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Sealing Cheng Overall, this book is a valuable resource for anyone who is interested in the comfort women issue, Japanese and Korean societies, colonialism in Asia, as well as the transnational women's human rights movement. The appendix is particularly interesting for those who conduct research...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (3): 475–491.
Published: 01 August 2022
... on cross-border litigation brought by former forced laborers and victims of sexual servitude known as “comfort women” during World War II. The concept of public policy ( ordre public ) in Korea, which has colonial origins, has long served law courts as the standard for deciding the validity of a juristic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (3): 621–644.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Tom Phuong Le Abstract This article examines why the “history issue” continues to hinder Japanese-Korean relations after nominally successful negotiations such as the 1965 Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea and the 2015 comfort women agreement. It contends...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 123–147.
Published: 01 February 2010
... to their contemporaries the Ottomans and Safavids, the power offered to young, even childless, royal women and their active participation in dynastic survival and political success. In generations of Mughal rule on the Subcontinent, the comfortable cultural accommodation of independent elite women was a vital component...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (1): 207–208.
Published: 01 February 2005
... in the way that she directly engages the reader in the paradoxes and puzzles of recent debates over the question of Japanese war crimes and responsibility sparked by the controversy of the military comfort women. This book is a must read for any serious student of Japan and for all interested in issues...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (3): 531–537.
Published: 01 August 2015
... 2015—the international calls for an official apology for Japan's wartime actions in Asia and its responsibility for the “comfort women” system of military brothels—proved once again that the political present determines the remembered past and that public memory does not necessarily move in a straight...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (3): 874–875.
Published: 01 August 1998
... of the implication of the daily practices of gendered citizens and soldiers in official state and military policies. What, then, might constitute justice (and truth) for the surviving "comfort women," their families, their fellow citizens, their respective states? Surely no small part of truth and justice for Korean...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (1): 206–207.
Published: 01 February 2005
... of the military comfort women. This book is a must read for any serious student of Japan and for all interested in issues of gender. For Ueno the debates on the comfort women bring to fore two sets of issues. One set of issues deals with the following question: Why did the subject of the comfort women become...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (3): 723–724.
Published: 01 August 1992
... "comfort women" were officially recruited by the Imperial forces. Rather, it was argued, they were supplied by private entrepreneurs. The recent discovery of official documents proving otherwise by Professor Yoshimi Yoshiaki of Chuo University forced the government to swallow its words and, more or less...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (1): 208–210.
Published: 01 February 2005
... U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S undermines effective social criticism because it de ects critical attention away from socially institutionalized forms of violence that target women. Ueno s untimely views on the comfort women are cued by a speculative commitment to a future society devoid...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 828–829.
Published: 01 August 2020
... era), that issues of Japanese Empire—war responsibilities, territorial disputes, ‘comfort women,’ the Yasukuni Shrine, and so on—became contentious in the region's public sphere” (p. 20). The three main empirical chapters (chapters 2–4) carefully illustrate how anti-Japanism in the post–Cold War...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 881–893.
Published: 01 November 2018
... 15 percent). Despite mixed reviews in the press, he has won a series of elections, and in politics that is what counts (Kingston 2018b). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018 2018 Asahi censorship comfort women Fukushima Japan #MeToo press freedom sexual harassment...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (1): 163–164.
Published: 01 February 2013
... is the implication for the U.S. Congress's accusations against the Japanese government in the early twenty-first century for not apologizing for “comfort women” issues that affected women in Korea? Chapters by Seungsook Moon, Michiko Takeuchi, and Maria Höhn deepen the previous research on interstate alliances...
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