Guest Editor's Introduction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12423726 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chungmoo Choi (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | v-xiv |
| Publication date | 1997-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | positions asia critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1067-9847 • E-ISSN: 1527-8271 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10679847-5-1-v |
| OpenAlex | W4213117952 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
This special issue ofpositions reaudits a crime against humanity perpetrated and kept in silence during one hundred years of colonialism and militarism in East Asia.In December 1991 three septuagenarian Korean women traveled from fifty years out of the past to awaken the world from a collective amnesia about Imperial Japan's massive enslavement of Asian women.They were former "comfort women" who filed a landmark lawsuit against Japan for drafting them for the sexual satiation of the Japanese soldiers during the Pacific War.The time of this awakening coincides with the end of the cold war.This temporal coincidence is not a historical accident but correlates with postwar international politics in the region.During the cold war, not only was debate on Japan's colonialism suppressed under U.S. hegemony, but so was discussion of such heinous crimes as the experiments on live human subjects for the development of biological warfare by Japanese Army Unit 731.Evidently the perpetrators of these crimes were swiftly
Asian American and Pacific Histories · Japanese History and Culture · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies · Psychology
For Transformative Knowledge and Postnationalist Public Spheres
Korean “Imperial Soldiers”
“Frantic to Join … the Japanese Army”
Vaccination, Quarantine, and Hygiene
In/fertility among Korea's “comfort women” survivors
Comfort Women in Human Rights Discourse
Murmurs in the Story-Telling Machine
Dreaming in Tongues
| Citations per year | 0.32 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2001 - 2015 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |