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Representing the 'Comfort Women': Omissions and Denials in Wartime Historiographies in Japan
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6815-5138
2023 (English)In: Representing Gender-Based Violence: Global Perspectives / [ed] Caroline Williamson Sinalo & Nicoletta Mandolini, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 1, p. 89-109Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter scrutinizes the rationales for omissions and denials of the ‘comfort women’ in wartime historiographies in Japan. By demonstrating how the contracting argument reduces the comfort women’s subjugation to regular business transactions to privatize the responsibility for the ‘comfort women’ system and how the controversial Yasukuni Shrine and its adjacent Yūshūkan War Memorial Museum contextualize the war as a product of Japan’s pre-war history of humiliation to reframe the comfort women issue as a question about resisting international subjugation, the chapter suggests that the contracting argument’s denial of gender violence and the Yasukuni and the Yūshūkan’s omission of the comfort women establish the nation-state at the survivors’ expense and that human rights activism involuntarily ends up serving the populists’ ends no matter which actions they undertake.

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London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 1. p. 89-109
Keywords [en]
‘Comfort women’, Wartime historiographies, The Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal 2000, Yasukuni Shrine, Yūshūkan War Memorial Museum
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Political Science
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Social Sciences, Political Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-118316DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-13451-7_5Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85161119790ISBN: 9783031134500 (print)ISBN: 9783031134517 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-118316DiVA, id: diva2:1726680
Available from: 2023-01-13 Created: 2023-01-13 Last updated: 2023-08-24Bibliographically approved

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