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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1321–1323.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Sealing Cheng The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan . By C. Sarah Soh . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . 2009 . xxviii, 352 pp. $25.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 Sarah Soh's book...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 1001–1003.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Lin Li 1 “Comfort women” is a euphemism used by the imperial Japanese government for girls and young women forced to work in Japanese military brothels known as “comfort stations” throughout East and Southeast Asia during the 1930s and 1940s. Estimates of the number of “comfort women” range...
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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 (1998) 57 (3): 872–874.
Published: 01 August 1998
... qualities of modern English language free verse. Unforgotten Dreams is an aesthetically pleasing book, one that lends itself to a variety of kinds of reading. It should have broad appeal among both academic and general audiences. SARAH M. STRONG Bates College The comfort women: colonialism, war, and sex...
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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 10687329.
Published: 16 August 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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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
... fit together neatly to offer a collective window onto the varied meanings of the war and the wide-ranging debates that continue to swirl around how it should be understood, remembered, and commemorated. The brutal experience of the “comfort women,” too, had become known to the world in the decades...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (3): 874–875.
Published: 01 August 1998
...Miriam Silverberg 874 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES experiences tells as well 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...
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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
... issues hindering reconciliation (such as textbook revisions, reparations for comfort women and conscripted laborers, and official apologies), this book takes seriously the role that individual affect and interpersonal relations play in processes of reconciliation. The three main empirical chapters...
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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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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 881–893.
Published: 01 November 2018
... Times , May 22. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/05/22/commentary/japan-commentary/stop-sexual-harassment/#.WwZPKC-B2b8 (accessed September 29, 2018 ). Yamaguchi Tomomi . 2017 . “ Press Freedom under Fire: ‘Comfort Women,’ the Asahi Affair and Uemura Takashi. ” In Press Freedom...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 1181–1183.
Published: 01 November 2007
... chapters point to the possibilities of treatment. In chapter 6, Wender describes resident movements, such as those for the indemnification of former comfort women, as “public therapies” for “private traumas” (p. 157). The political movement of the 1990s is presented alongside the fiction of Yū Miri, who...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (3): 693–711.
Published: 01 August 2018
... there is an issue that might be considered more important or more relevant than others in terms of the rally effects these issues might produce, we re-estimated Model 3 with dummy variables for the issues of Dokdo, comfort women, history textbooks, and Japanese prime ministers’ visits to the Yasukuni Shrine. Among...
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