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"Comfort women," memory and reparations. A comment on the recent decision reached by the governments of Korea and Japan

December 30, 2015 by Luis Tsukayama Cisneros in Social critiques, Sociological imagination

The issue of "comfort women" is a lot more problematic than the recent decision reached between the governments of Japan and South Korea would seem to suggest. This is my personal comment, but with it I am also sharing a link that caught my attention. Unlike most media that praised the reparations the Japanese government is offering to former Korean "comfort women" (who were basically based as war-time forced prostitutes of Korean origin), the authors have a very critical perspective

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December 30, 2015 /Luis Tsukayama Cisneros
Japan, Korea, Comfort women, World War II, Memory, Politics, Trauma, Media, Truth Commission, Peru, History
Social critiques, Sociological imagination
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