@article{ART002068582},
author={park jung ae},
title={An Essay on the Category and Concept of ‘Comfort Women’ drafted into the Japanese forces through Damage Status},
journal={The Review of Korean History},
issn={1225-133X},
year={2015},
number={120},
pages={167-203}
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TI - An Essay on the Category and Concept of ‘Comfort Women’ drafted into the Japanese forces through Damage Status
JO - The Review of Korean History
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PB - The Historical Society Of Korea
SP - 167
EP - 203
SN - 1225-133X
AB - This article is to set the concept and category of ‘Comfort Women’ drafted into the Japanese forces through a historical approach in the introductory manner. Although it has been 30 years since the issue of ‘Comfort Women’ drafted into the Japanese forces was raised and its problem-solving efforts were started, an agreement on the concept and category of ‘Comfort Women’ drafted into the Japanese forces has not been reached between researchers, activists and the authorities concerned. It is because its characteristics of the researches and movements developing the problem-solving movements based on rashly judged or historically biased researches of ‘Comfort Women’ drafted into the Japanese forces with the characteristics of the homeland victims taken into account and reconstructed through official documents. On top of that, the right wing forces in Japan have turned this issue into a political contest, which makes the efforts for its recognition and resolution of ‘Comfort Women’ drafted into the Japanese forces complex and contradictory.
It is necessary to consider how the historical background to the system of ‘Comfort Women’ drafted into the Japanese forces began in order to have productive discussions on the concept and category of ‘Comfort Women’ drafted into the Japanese forces. To establish the military discipline of soldiers while maintaining the repressive military organization, Japanese forces was engaged in satisfying the sexual appetite of the soldiers and tried to solve it. There were three ways of reacting to it; establishment of new comfort stations, toleration of the sexual violence which the Japanese soldiers had committed in the occupied areas, and utilization of the Japanese authorities-managed prostitution facilities. From among these, the second and third cases are controversial in defining the concept and category of ‘Comfort Women’ drafted into the Japanese forces.
It is asserted in this article that priority consideration will be given to the historical peculiarities of ‘Comfort Women’ drafted into the Japanese forces issue as a ‘system’ in order to set up the concept and category of ‘Comfort Women’ drafted into the Japanese forces, which is not to blur the victims of sexual violences during the war but to examine how repressed the human right of women were and they were sexually instrumentalized frequently crossing the legal and illegal during the War in the Pacific by showing the spectrum of the wartime sexual assaults committed by the Japanese forces. It will be possible to seek the solutions in consideration of their respective peculiarities along with the examination of their causes in the fundamental dimensions of the wartime sexual violences which are considered as the issue of the common sexual slaves after the definition is made on the basis of the historical facts of ‘Comfort Women’ drafted into the Japanese forces utilized in the framework of the permission through the regulations of the Japanese governments and Japanese forces.
KW - System of ‘Comfort Women’ drafted into the Japanese forces;Sexual violences during the war;Sexual crimes of Japanese forces;Management of prostitution
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park jung ae. (2015). An Essay on the Category and Concept of ‘Comfort Women’ drafted into the Japanese forces through Damage Status. The Review of Korean History, 120, 167-203.
park jung ae. 2015, "An Essay on the Category and Concept of ‘Comfort Women’ drafted into the Japanese forces through Damage Status", The Review of Korean History, no.120, pp.167-203.
park jung ae "An Essay on the Category and Concept of ‘Comfort Women’ drafted into the Japanese forces through Damage Status" The Review of Korean History 120 pp.167-203 (2015) : 167.
park jung ae. An Essay on the Category and Concept of ‘Comfort Women’ drafted into the Japanese forces through Damage Status. 2015; 120 : 167-203.
park jung ae. "An Essay on the Category and Concept of ‘Comfort Women’ drafted into the Japanese forces through Damage Status" The Review of Korean History no.120(2015) : 167-203.
park jung ae. An Essay on the Category and Concept of ‘Comfort Women’ drafted into the Japanese forces through Damage Status. The Review of Korean History, 120, 167-203.
park jung ae. An Essay on the Category and Concept of ‘Comfort Women’ drafted into the Japanese forces through Damage Status. The Review of Korean History. 2015; 120 167-203.
park jung ae. An Essay on the Category and Concept of ‘Comfort Women’ drafted into the Japanese forces through Damage Status. 2015; 120 : 167-203.
park jung ae. "An Essay on the Category and Concept of ‘Comfort Women’ drafted into the Japanese forces through Damage Status" The Review of Korean History no.120(2015) : 167-203.