Voices Of The Korean Comfort Women

Author : Chungmoo Choi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100075006X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices of the Korean Comfort Women written by Chungmoo Choi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innumerable number of young women were taken from Korea during the Pacific War to provide sexual services to Japanese soldiers. These women, including teenagers, euphemistically referred to in Japanese documents as Comfort Women, were shipped to the vastly expanded battlefronts throughout the Japan-occupied territories covering Northern China to Myanmar and to the South Pacific Islands. Many of these girls died, were killed or abandoned during and after the war, but a small percentage of them returned only to face yet another devastating war at home and lasting social stigma. In Voices of the Korean Comfort Women, nine survivors tell their traumatic life stories as to how they were taken, how they had been treated with atrocities at the Comfort Stations, and how they had survived through not only the Pacific War but also the Korean War and beyond. These often-harrowing personal testimonies are each expanded by the interviewer’s observational notes, thereby providing poignant contextual information. This English translation of vital oral history, underpinned with theoretically informed guides, will be invaluable to students and scholars of Asian history, the Pacific War and wartime sexual violence against women as well as those interested in historical trauma and human rights.

Author : Friedman S. J.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781782806110
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silenced No More written by Friedman S. J. and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C. Sarah Soh
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022676804X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Comfort Women written by C. Sarah Soh and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale, the tragedy of the so-called comfort women—mostly Korean women forced into prostitution by the Japanese army—endures as one of the darkest events of World War II. These women have usually been labeled victims of a war crime, a simplistic view that makes it easy to pin blame on the policies of imperial Japan and therefore easier to consign the episode to a war-torn past. In this revelatory study, C. Sarah Soh provocatively disputes this master narrative. Soh reveals that the forces of Japanese colonialism and Korean patriarchy together shaped the fate of Korean comfort women—a double bind made strikingly apparent in the cases of women cast into sexual slavery after fleeing abuse at home. Other victims were press-ganged into prostitution, sometimes with the help of Korean procurers. Drawing on historical research and interviews with survivors, Soh tells the stories of these women from girlhood through their subjugation and beyond to their efforts to overcome the traumas of their past. Finally, Soh examines the array of factors— from South Korean nationalist politics to the aims of the international women’s human rights movement—that have contributed to the incomplete view of the tragedy that still dominates today.

Author : Kim Soom
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295747676
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Left written by Kim Soom and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Pacific War, more than 200,000 Korean girls were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers. They lived in horrific conditions in “comfort stations” across Japanese-occupied territories. Barely 10 percent survived to return to Korea, where they lived as social outcasts. Since then, self-declared comfort women have come forward only to have their testimonies and calls for compensation largely denied by the Japanese government. Kim Soom tells the story of a woman who was kidnapped at the age of thirteen while gathering snails for her starving family. The horrors of her life as a sex slave follow her back to Korea, where she lives in isolation gripped by the fear that her past will be discovered. Yet, when she learns that the last known comfort woman is dying, she decides to tell her there will still be “one left” after her passing, and embarks on a painful journey. One Left is a provocative, extensively researched novel constructed from the testimonies of dozens of comfort women. The first Korean novel devoted to this subject, it rekindled conversations about comfort women as well as the violent legacies of Japanese colonialism. This first-ever English translation recovers the overlooked and disavowed stories of Korea’s most marginalized women.

Author : C. Sarah Soh
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226767779
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Comfort Women written by C. Sarah Soh and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale, the tragedy of the so-called comfort women—mostly Korean women forced into prostitution by the Japanese army—endures as one of the darkest events of World War II. These women have usually been labeled victims of a war crime, a simplistic view that makes it easy to pin blame on the policies of imperial Japan and therefore easier to consign the episode to a war-torn past. In this revelatory study, C. Sarah Soh provocatively disputes this master narrative. Soh reveals that the forces of Japanese colonialism and Korean patriarchy together shaped the fate of Korean comfort women—a double bind made strikingly apparent in the cases of women cast into sexual slavery after fleeing abuse at home. Other victims were press-ganged into prostitution, sometimes with the help of Korean procurers. Drawing on historical research and interviews with survivors, Soh tells the stories of these women from girlhood through their subjugation and beyond to their efforts to overcome the traumas of their past. Finally, Soh examines the array of factors— from South Korean nationalist politics to the aims of the international women’s human rights movement—that have contributed to the incomplete view of the tragedy that still dominates today.

Author : Erik Ropers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780429466168
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices of the Korean Minority in Postwar Japan written by Erik Ropers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shedding new light on how the histories of zainichi Koreans have been written, consumed, and discussed, this book addresses the roots of postwar debates concerning the wartime experiences of Koreans in Japan. Providing an overview of the complicated historiography, it explores the experiences of Koreans located at Ground Zero in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as the history and processes that coerced Korean women into military prostitution. These debates and controversies continue to attract attention regionally and globally, and as this book demonstrates, they are deeply embedded in ideas dating back decades earlier. By tracing the roots of these debates in historical writings from local history groups to zainichi and Japanese scholars, we may see how written histories have been used for particular social, political, or cultural purposes, and how they have lent support to certain interpretations and memories of past events across the political spectrum. Interdisciplinary at its core, Voices of the Korean Minority in Postwar Japan will appeal to audiences including those interested in modern Japanese and Korean history, historiography and methodology, and memory studies.

Author : Joshua D. Pilzer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019975957X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hearts of Pine written by Joshua D. Pilzer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the wartime experience of sexual slavery for the Japanese military during the Asia-Pacific War (1930-45), Korean survivors lived under great pressure not to speak about what had happened to them. These sexual slaves were known as 'comfort women,' and this book brings us into the lives of three of them.

Author : Dai Sil Kim-Gibson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silence Broken written by Dai Sil Kim-Gibson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : The Research Team of the War
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110670526
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories that Make History written by The Research Team of the War and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would it be like if your existence was erased for half a century? This is the reality for the Korean comfort girls-women whose lives had been erased since the time of the expansion of comfort stations by the Japanese military in 1937. This book is an effort to bring these women back to life and to make their voices, experiences and memories available to future generations. The experiences of Korean comfort girls-women are a paradigmatic example of how military sexual violence can obliterate the dignity of women and shame them into nonexistence. This book examines how the turning of their innocence into inadequacy, actively by the Japanese government and passively by the Korean government and its people, and also by the world, compounded their long, miserable suffering for half a century until Kim Hak-sun broke the silence in 1991 with the support of Korean activists. The relentless and courageous efforts of Korean comfort girls-women and activists on the road to healing and justice are shared here. These efforts made it possible for us to hear their horrific stories, which are embedded with numerous and intense traumas, allowing them to unfold and be shared on the road to justice and healing.

Author : Keith Howard
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book True Stories of the Korean Comfort Women written by Keith Howard and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1995 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprises a collection of life stories originally published in 1993 in Korean as Kangjero kkŭllyŏgan Chosŏnin kunwianbudŭl [The Korean comfort women who were coercively dragged away for the military].