...Hyunah Yang Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Revisiting the Issue of Korean “Military Comfort Women“: The Question of Truth and Positionality Hyunah Yang Obiective Truth and Marginalization of the Women In early 1992, when the issue of Korean...

...Won Soon Park Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Japanese Reparations Policies and the "Comfort Women" Question Won Soon Park Introduction The Japanese Imperial Army left an indelible mark on the destinies of many Asian...

...Hyun Sook Kim Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 History and Memory: The "Comfort Women" Controversy Hyun Sook Kim For an experienced event is finite . . . confined to one sphere of experience; a remembered event is infinite...

... document depicting those moving women. This article examines the politics of using film footage excavated from archives long after the original production of the film. Both types of reactions shown toward the “comfort women” footage shared the same attitude, which viewed the footage as a repository...

...Jongwoo Jeremy Kim This essay does not concern the history of comfort women per se; rather, it treats disruption and transgression in the discourse of comfort women, as filmmaker Byun Young-Joo sets in motion in The Murmuring (1995). This essay is particularly concerned with Byun's visual language...

...Kun Jong Lee 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Princess Pari in Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman Kun Jong Lee When she attended a human rights symposium in 1993, Nora Okja Keller listened to the testimony of Keum Ju Hwang and learned the truth...

...David J. Kim On July 13, 1990, a group of shamans innovated and performed a ritual they refer to as the haewŏn chinhon to appease the deceased spirits of Japanese military “comfort women.” Caught unprepared for the large number of spirits who appeared, as well as the accompanying spiritual...

...Kang Tŏk-kyŏng; Kim Sun-dŏk Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Portfolio Artwork by former comfort women Kang T6k- ky6ng Kim Sun-d6k Artwork by Jupanese artists Tomiyama Taeko Shimada Yoshiko Artwork by Korean American artists Yong Soon Min...

... conventional portrayals of comfort women as erotic prostitutes. The image of comfort women as highly sexualized bodies has taken deep root in postwar Japanese popular culture, but the statue challenges this stereotyping and presents instead the pristine image of comfort women as innocent teenage victims...

...Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt Against the background of the decades-long international relations dispute over Japan’s wartime military “comfort women” system, this article explores one of the scant literary representations of comfort women in Japanese literature. Through a close reading of Yū Miri’s...

... technification of the domestic sphere. Modern households are increasingly equipped with a variety of electric appliances that not only provide convenience and comfort but also serve as markers of social distinction. This essay explores the history of domestic electrification and people's aspirations to live...

... with the contradictions of late socialism to realize their vision of a good life. We underscore four domains of action in which people articulate and act out their vision: comfort and pleasure, caring and being cared for, cosmology and nature, and freedom and autonomy. Their practices reveal how the paradoxical value...

... amnesia about Imperial Japan’s massive enslavement of Asian women. They were former “comfort women” who filed a landmark lawsuit against Japan for drafting them for the sexual satiation of the Japanese soldiers dur- ing the Pacific War. The time...

...- nese military comfort station. The soldiers were almost of the same age as us. Since we are alive here and now, so should they.  — Ahn Bopsoon, Korean survivor of military sexual slavery A person writes the words just to play...

... to reopen the question of responsibility for Japanese military sexual slavery euphemistically called “the comfort women” system and to clarify that this system of sexual slavery was a war crime whose perpetrators should have been brought to trial. Sec...

...Yong Soon Min; Sasha Y. Lee Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Portfolio Artwork by former comfort women Kang T6k- ky6ng Kim Sun-d6k Artwork by Jupanese artists Tomiyama Taeko Shimada Yoshiko Artwork by Korean American artists Yong Soon Min...

...Tomiyama Taeko; Shimada Yoshiko Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Portfolio Artwork by former comfort women Kang T6k- ky6ng Kim Sun-d6k Artwork by Jupanese artists Tomiyama Taeko Shimada Yoshiko Artwork by Korean American artists Yong Soon Min...

... Corps for the Comforting of the Imperial Army to Cheju Island in 1943.5 Several women, appealing to the Korean government for support, testified that they had been mobilized from elementary schools to become military sex slaves in war...

.... Hashimoto’s Remarks on Comfort Women: 71% Says ‘Inappropriate.’ ” Tokyo , May 19 . McNeill David . 2007 . “ A Foot Soldier in the War against Forgetting Japanese Wartime Atrocities .” Japan Focus 5 , no. 1 . apjjf.org/-David-McNeill/2333/article.html . Morris Rosalind . 2000...