Park Yuha

Comfort Women of the Japanese Empire (eBook, ePUB)

Colonial Rule and the Battle over Memory

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is an important and controversial book, hitherto available only in Korean, Japanese and Chinese. The author reconsiders the issue of the "comfort women", that is the Korean women who were compelled to provide sexual comfort to Japanese troops during the Asia-Pacific War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040103395
• Artikelnr.: 72271639

Autorenporträt

Park Yuha is a Professor Emeritus at the College of International Studies, Sejong University, Korea

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Prologue from Volker Stanzel, former German Ambassador to China and Japan
Author's Preface to the English Translation
Translators' Introduction
Author's Introduction to the Japanese version
Part I: Who were the comfort women? State control of the body, civilian
engagement
Chapter 1: Forced transport or national mobilization
Chapter 2: The erosion of memory at the comfort station
Chapter 3: Immediately after defeat - Return of the Korean comfort women
Part 2: "Colony" and the Korean Comfort Women
Chapter 4: Korean perceptions of the comfort women
Chapter 5: The battle over memory: the South Korean side
Chapter 6: Thinking About South Korean support groups
Chapter 7: Reading the Korean Constitutional Court ruling
Chapter 8: Examining "what the world thinks"
Part 3: The conflict of memory: the collapse of the Cold War order and the
comfort women issue
Chapter 9: The colonial consciousness that supports the thinking of deniers
Chapter 10: Considering Japan's apology and compensation actions in the
1990s
Chapter 11: Expectations placed on the Japanese government once again
Chapter 12: Facing the supporters' potential
Part 4: Beyond the empire and the Cold War
Chapter 13: Comfort women and the nation-state
Chapter 14: For a new Asia: Seventy years since defeat, seventy years since
liberation
In place of an afterword: why we must reconsider the comfort women issue
Index