The politics of memory: Nation, individual and self

History and Memory

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 129-152

  Chizuko, Ueno ^a  

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISTORY; JAPAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MEMORY; PROSTITUTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAPE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CONTROL; SOCIAL STATUS; SOLDIER; WAR; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

HISTORIOGRAPHY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; JAPAN; MEMORY; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PROSTITUTION; RAPE; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIAL CONTROL POLICIES; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS; WOMEN, WORKING; WORLD WAR II;

EID: 84892420510     PISSN: 0935560X     EISSN: 15271994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/ham.2005.0001     Document Type: Short Survey

References (13)

1. Both phrases are from the introductions to Suzuki Yu¯ko, Joseishi o hiraku 3: Onna to sengo goju¯nen (Exploring women's history 3: Women and the fiftieth anniversary of the War) (Tokyo, 1996)
2. and Joseishi o hiraku 4: Ianfu mondai to sengo sekinin (Exploring women's history 4: The comfort women problem and postwar responsibility) (Tokyo, 1996).
3. Translator's note: John Rabe was head of the Nanking branch of the German electronics firm Siemens in 1937, when the Japanese attacked the city. Rabe created a safety zone for Chinese refugees and is believed to have saved thousands of lives. His diary, published in German as der gute Deutsche von Nanking, records the months of the Nanking massacre. The English translation is John E. Woods, The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe (New York, 1998).
4. As a result, criticism has come from Japanese women's historians that "women's studies", as represented by feminism is merely importing theories from overseas, ignorant of Japan, while Japanese feminists have criticized the women's historians for being left behind by the changes occurring in other fields. For discussion of the convoluted relationship between women's history and feminism in Japan, see Ueno, "Rekishigaku to feminizumu: 'Joseishi' o koete" (Historical studies and feminism: Beyond "women's history"), in Asao Naohiro et al., eds., Iwanami koza Nihon tsushi bekkan 1: Rekishi ishiki nogenzai (Iwanami Japanese history series, supplement 1: Historical consciousness in the present) (Tokyo, 1996).
5. For essays reflecting the attempt to bring the two fields closer together, see Tabata Yasuko, Ueno Chizuko and Fukuto Sanae, eds., Jendaa to josei (Gender and women) (Tokyo, 1997).
6. George Duby and Michelle Perrot, eds., A History of Women in the West (Cambridge, MA, 1992).
7. Kawado Fumiko, "'Jugun ianfu' mondai no rekishi to jijitsu" (History and the facts of the 'comfort women' issue), Kanagawa daigaku hyoron 28(1997):80-86;
8. Kurahashi Masanao, Jugun ianfu mondai no rekishiteki kenkyu¯ (A historical study of the comfort women issue) (Tokyo, 1994), 50-108.
9. Fujime Yuki, "Joseishi kara mita 'jugun ianfu' mondai" (The 'comfort women' issue from the perspective of women's history), Kikan senso¯ sekinin kenkyu¯ 18(Winter 1997):2-9.
10. Maeda Akira, "Sabetsu to jinken: Kihanteki shiko" (Discrimination and human rights: Normative thinking), Inpakushon, no. 102(Apr. 1997):12.
11. Elizabeth Tonkin, Narrating Our Pasts: The Social Construction of Oral History (Cambridge, 1995).
12. Hashimoto Osamu, Bokutachi no kindaishi (Our modern history) (Tokyo, 1988), 17-68.
13. Miyazaki Tetsuya, Bokura no "shinryaku" senso¯ (Our invasive war) (Tokyo, 1995).