Disputes in Japan over the Japanese military "comfort women" system and its perception in history

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 617, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 123-132

  Hayashi, Hirofumi ^a,b  

^a KANTO GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Center for Research and Documentation on Japan's War Responsibility (JWRC)

Author keywords

Comfort women; Perception of history; Sexual slavery; War responsibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 42149114101     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716208314191     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Hayashi, Hirofumi. 2001. The Japanese movement to protest wartime sexual violence: A survey of Japanese and international literature. Critical Asian Studies 33 (4). 572-80.
2. - -. 2005. Nihon no Haigaiteki Nashonarizumu wa Naze Taito shitaka [Why Japanese chauvinistic nationalism has gained power]. In Kesareta Sabaki: NHK Bangumi Kaihen to Seiji Kainyu Jiken [Censored judgment: Interpretation of NHK's TV program and politicians' intervention], ed. VAWW-NET Japan, 160-86. Tokyo: Gaifusha. http://www.32.ocn.ne.jp/∼modernh/paper72.htm.
3. JWRC (The Center for Research and Documentation on Japan's War Responsibility). 2007 a. Appeal on the issue of Japan's military comfort women. February 23. http://space.geocities.jp/japanwarres/center/english/appeal03.htm.
4. - -. 2007 b. Reference materials of the press conference on Japanese military sexual slavery ("comfort women"). April 17. http://space.geocities.jp/japanwarres/center/hodo/hodo38.pdf.
5. Jwrc et al. 2007. What would make a Japanese government apology to comfort women unequivocal? July 31. http://space.geocities.jp/japanwarres/ center/english/appeal05.htm.
6. Kim, Puja. 2007. "Ianfu" Mondai to Datsu-Shokuminnchi-shugi ["Ianfu" issue and de-colonialism]. Inpakushon [Impaction] 158 (July): 124-47.
7. Nihon no Zento to Rekishi Kyouiku wo Kangaeru Wakate Giin no Kai [Young Diet Member's League to Consider Japan's Future and History Education]. 1997. Rekishi Kyokasho heno Gimon [Doubts on history textbook]. Tokyo: Private Press.
8. Nishimura, Koyu, ed. 2007. Johosen: Ianfu-Nankin no Shinjitsu [Information warfare: Truth of comfort women and Nanjin]. Tokyo: Okura Shupan.
9. Senso Sekinin Kenkyu [Report on Japan's War Responsibility]. 2007. Feature: Frontline of comfort women issue. Senso Sekinin Kenkyu 56 (June). http://space.geocities.jp/japanwarres/center/somokuji.htm.
10. Tawara, Yoshifumi, and Akira Uozumi. 2006. Abe Shinzo no Honsho [Real character of Abe Shinzo]. Tokyo: Kinyobi.
11. U.S. Department of State. 2007. Trafficking in persons report. June 12. http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2007/.
12. Washington Post. 2007, June 14. The Facts. Advertisement.
13. Yoshimi, Yoshiaki, 2000. Comfort women: Sexual slavery in the Japanese military during World War II. New York: Columbia University Press.
14. Yoshimi, Yoshiaki, and Hirofumi Hayashi, eds. 1995. Nihongun Ianfu [Japanese military comfort women]. Tokyo: Otsuki Shoten.
15. Yoshimi, Yoshiaki, Rumiko Nishino, and Hirofumi Hayashi. 2007. Koko made wakatta Nihon-gun Ianfu Seido [Clarified picture of Japanese military comfort women system]. Kyoto, Japan: Kamogawa Shuppan.