scholarly journals ‘Comfort Women’ and the politics of responsibility

2012 ◽  
pp. 89-93
Author(s):  
Gyunghee Park
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Sex Industry ◽  
Korean Women ◽  
Comfort Women ◽  
World War ◽  
Japanese Military ◽  
Second World ◽  
Sense Of Shame

Japan’s brutal military occupation of Korea from 1910 until the end of the Second World War is generally remembered as a period of grave injustice which has defined a large part of what it means to be Korean. Though the list of crimes is vast, today it seems that one of the most barbaric offences committed at the time was the formation of ‘comfort stations’ – a euphemistic term used to describe the sexual exploitation of mostly Korean women by the Japanese military and government. After a decisive end to Japan’s military conquest of control over the Asia Pacific with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, former ‘comfort women’ were silenced for over half a century by a deeply systemic sense of shame. Korean patriarchy pressed many survivors to hide their plight or even back into different sectors of the sex industry. However, South Korea’s democratization in the late-1980s ...

scholarly journals The Internment and Repatriation of the Japanese-French Nationals Resident in New Caledonia, 1941–1946

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rowena Ward
Keyword(s):  
Japanese Population ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
World War ◽  
Vichy Regime ◽  
Japanese Residents ◽  
Second World ◽  
Laws And Regulations

The pre-1941 Japanese population of New Caledonia was decimated by the French administration’s decision to transfer most of the Japanese residents to Australia for internment at the outbreak of the Asia-Pacific theatre of the Second World War. Among the men transferred to Australia were ten men who had been formerly French nationals but had lost their French nationality by decree. The French Administration’s ability to denationalise and intern and then subsequently repatriate the former-Japanese French-nationals was possible due to changes to the French nationality laws and regulations introduced by the Vichy regime. This paper considers the case of the Japanese who had taken French nationality and were denationalised in the context of the changes to the French nationality laws that, in turn, negatively affected the post-1945 sustainability of the Japanese community in New Caledonia.

Japanese Military Policy towards French Indochina during the Second World War: The Road to the Meigo Sakusen (9 March 1945)

1983 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 328-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiyoko Kurusu Nitz
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Military Policy ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
World War ◽  
Military Action ◽  
The Road ◽  
Japanese Military ◽  
Second World

The Japanese occupied the Philippines in 1941, and Burma and Indonesia in 1942. French Indochina, then called Futsuin by the Japanese, continued to remain in French hands until 9 March 1945. It seemed to present a contrasting picture vis-à-vis Japanese policies in other Asian countries and to contradict the declared policy as expressed in the “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere” (in Japanese Dai-Tōa-Kyoei-Ken). On 9 March, however, this was reversed by the Japanese military action, which disarmed the French Indochinese Army. This action has come to be known as the Meigo Sakusen (Meigo [bright moon] Action).

scholarly journals In afwachting van betere tijden1 : Het kerkelijk leven op Nederlands-Borneo tijdens de oorlog en de internering (1941-1945)

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (93) ◽  
pp. 173-199
Author(s):  
Jan Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Military Regime ◽  
World War ◽  
Church Life ◽  
Japanese Military ◽  
Detention Camps ◽  
Second World

Abstract The Second World War, the Japanese military regime and the detention of Dutch Protestant and Catholic missionaries in prison camps had considerable consequences for the functioning of church life in Borneo, both within and outside the detention camps. These consequences constitute the theme of this article. Church life in the island continued to suffer some of these consequences beyond the end of the war.

Remembering Seonjeong Yi Lebrun: Mourning with narratives of care

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyunji Kwon
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Comfort Women ◽  
World War ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Unexpected Death ◽  
Traumatic Memories ◽  
Self Study ◽  
New Form ◽  
Imperial Japanese Army ◽  
Second World

It is hard to coherently narrate traumatic memories as they are intensely emotional and fragmented. I created this narrative inquiry in the hope of enacting care and performing mourning for the unexpected death of Seonjeong Yi Lebrun (1983–2017). Seonjeong was a Korean-born art education researcher in Canada whose work exemplified how artistic approaches to narrative evoke empathy and connectivity. Her research spanned arts-based self-study to participatory action research about comfort women (Korean sex slaves for the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second World War). In performing mourning for Seonjeong through examining her research, I endeavour to have my research possibly initiate a new form of arts-based collective care for her, comfort women and those suffering from other forms of trauma.

‘So rich as to be almost indecent’: some aspects of post-war rehabilitation in Brunei, 1946–1953

1995 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-103
Author(s):  
A. V. M. Horton
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Fire Fighters ◽  
North West ◽  
Military Administration ◽  
Japanese Military ◽  
Post War ◽  
Second World ◽  
Intense Heat

The small, oil-rich state of Brunei (population c. 40,000 in 1940) is situated in north-west Borneo. The ‘Abode of Peace’ became a British protectorate in 1888 and a Residential System along Malayan lines came into operation at the beginning of 1906. For most of the Second World War the country was under Japanese Military Administration, a period of three and a half years beginning in December 1941. Allied, predominantly Australian, landings took place in early June 1945 (Fahey 1992: 325–8; Monks 1992: 7–53) and the sultanate was speedily cleared of enemy forces, though not before the latter had successfully executed a scorched-earth programme. Most crucially of all, the Seria oilfield (discovered in 1929 by the Shell company) was set alight, the flames shooting ‘like giant blow-lamps’ at least thirty feet into the air. The last well fire was not extinguished until 27 September 1945 (Harper 1975: 21–4). A report in the Straits Times of 20 July 1946 gives some impression of the problems faced by the returning Western engineers:Most of the [Seria] wells were surrounded by blazing lakes, and the oil experts had to blast their way through. Because of the intense heat it was difficult to get near enough to ‘cap’ them and so seal the fires. In some cases aircraft were used, the fire-fighters advancing through the slipstream of the propellers which blew the flames and oil back. It then became possible to get near enough to thrust forward on long steel arms heavy charges of explosives.

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