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Book SynopsisNon-Western Colonization, Orientalism, and the ''Comfort Women: The Collective Memory of Sexual Slavery under the Japanese Imperial Military examines the collective memory of sexual slavery under the Japanese Imperial Military in Japan over the past seventy-five years. Euphemistically known as the comfort women, tens of thousands of young females were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers during the Asia-Pacific War. The majority of these women are believed to have been deceitfully or forcibly taken from Korea, a former Japanese colony. The ways in which sexual slavery has been remembered in Japan lies at the root of a long-standing diplomatic conflict between Japan and South Korea and has fueled a memory war among Japanese scholars and activists. The author argues that Korean comfort women have been exoticized in the collective memory similarly to Oriental women''s presentations by Western Orientalists. This book is a comprehensive analysis of the memory of sexual slav
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 – Introduction: Collective Memories of Sexual Slavery under the Japanese Imperial Military
Chapter 2 – The Memories of Sexual Slavery in Japan from 1945 to the 1960s: Romantic Stories of Forbidden Love
Chapter 3 – The Memories of Sexual Slavery in Japan from the 1970s to 1990: Japanese War Guilt, Victims, and Romanticized Memories
Chapter 4 – The Memories of Sexual Slavery from 1991 to 2015: Nationalist Memories
Chapter 5 – The Memories of Sexual Slavery from 1991 to 2015: Progressive Memories
Chapter 6 – The Memories of Sexual Slavery in Japan from 2015 to the Present: The 2015 Bilateral Agreement and ‘Comfort Women’ Statues
Chapter 7 – Reflections on Memories of Sexual Slavery in Japan and South Korea
