Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War II. Yoshimi Yoshiaki

2001 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 314-317
Author(s):  
L.H.M. Ling
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Comfort Women ◽  
World War ◽  
Sexual Slavery ◽  
Japanese Military

The Deafening Silence of the Korean “Comfort Women”: A Response Based on Lyotard and Irigaray

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-356
Author(s):  
Constance Youngwon LEE ◽  
Jonathan CROWE
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Japanese Government ◽  
Comfort Women ◽  
World War ◽  
Sexual Slavery ◽  
Japanese Military ◽  
Korean Comfort Women ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis article reflects upon the continuing historical denialism concerning the Korean “comfort women” forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II. We argue that the refusal of the Japanese government and others to squarely confront this wrong is made possible through the exploitation of adifférendin Jean-François Lyotard’s sense of the term. Thedifférendarises from a complex set of social, cultural, and legal sources, including patriarchal, colonial, and nationalistic constructions of the wrong and its victims. We seek to tentatively expose the nature of thedifférendby identifying these factors. We then sketch the beginnings of a possible response, drawing on Luce Irigaray’s strategy of emphasizing sexual difference and separation to pave the way for reciprocality between the sexes. The testimonies of the “comfort women” must be allowed to speak for themselves before a response can emerge based in other discourses.

scholarly journals Psychiatric Sequelae of Former “Comfort Women,” Survivors of the Japanese Military Sexual Slavery during World War II

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 336-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeewon Lee ◽  
Young-Sook Kwak ◽  
Yoon-Jung Kim ◽  
Eun-Ji Kim ◽  
E Jin Park ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Women Survivors ◽  
Comfort Women ◽  
World War ◽  
Sexual Slavery ◽  
Japanese Military ◽  
Psychiatric Sequelae

The Demand to Listen to Korean “Comfort Women” and to Two Biblical Women

2020 ◽  
pp. 96-111
Author(s):  
Yani Yoo
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Comfort Women ◽  
World War ◽  
Korean History ◽  
Japanese Military ◽  
Biblical Women ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
Korean Comfort Women

Correlated to the experiences of Korean comfort women, the story of Solomon’s judgment (1 Kgs. 3:16–28) becomes a resistance narrative to hegemonic powers. The interpretation discusses the literary strategies of the women’s identities and naming, the emerging reversal of power, the issues of mimicry, mockery, ambiguity, and the conspiracy of readers. The Japanese military comfort women of World War II serve as the geopolitical context with which the interpretation justifies its focus on the two biblical women. It becomes apparent that colonizing and patriarchal powers ignore victim-survivors of sexual violence and abuse whether in the biblical text or in recent Korean history. Biblical texts and recent wartime events illuminate each other.

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