Essays
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- My Mother Is More Than A Comfort Woman: A Storybook of the Lolas from Their Daughters’ Perspectives
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My Mother Is More Than A Comfort Woman is a storybook that presents the experiences of Filipino “Comfort Women” survivors through the eyes of their daughters and a granddaughter.
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- A “Comfort Woman” Who Has Yet to Return Home, a Memory That Has Yet to Be Mourned: The Name Bae Bong-gi
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Is it still possible to remember Bae Bong-gi’s life and mourn her death beyond the adversarial structure between nations?
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- Why the “Statue of Peace” Exhibition Is an Act of Practice
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The solidarity practice of Japanese citizens who finally realized the exhibition of the “Statue of Peace” through the “Non-Freedom of Expression Exhibition”—more than a decade in the making.
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- Visiting the Memorial Museum Ravensbrück, the Site of the Largest Women’s Concentration Camp under Nazi Germany
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The irony is that Germany, which is often hailed as a “model” country for past liquidation by providing compensation to victims of wartime forced labor through government-industry collaboration, did not even include women forced into sexual slavery in the category of victims entitled to such compensation and still does not recognize their legal victim status.
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- Right-wing or Conscientious?
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Recommendation from Professor Takashi Machida of Changwon National University, Advocate for the Japanese Military “Comfort Women” Issue
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- Who is afraid of images?
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In August 2000, I videotaped the medical examinations of the Japanese military “Comfort Women” victims in preparation for the upcoming “Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal” scheduled for Dece
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- The rooms of the surviving “Comfort Women” - Kang Il-chul’s room
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What kind of everyday life do the surviving “Comfort Women” victims residing in the <House of Sharing> leads? <Kyeol> the Webzine has arranged an essay series to look at daily life of those who live at the <House of Sharing>, centering upon the space of the “room.” The fourth protagonist is Kang Il-chul.
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- The rooms of the surviving “Comfort Women” - Park Ok-sun’s room
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Upon Park Ok-sun's return to South Korea, she moved back and forth between her younger brother's house and her nephew's house in Seoul, and eventually was admitted to <House of Sharing> in 2002.
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- The Story of Bae Bong-gi – “We luckily managed to survive amid that war.”
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In her book <The House with a Red Tile Roof - The Story of Korean Women Who Became the Japanese Military "Comfort Women"> which was translated into Korean in 2014, Kawata Fumiko vividly yet calmly unraveled the testimony of Bae Bong-gi, one of the Korean "Comfort Women" who was taken to Okinawa. Based on the testimonies and data collected from Okinawa residents, Japanese soldiers, as well as Bae Bong-gi, this article describes the detailed circumstances experienced by Bae Bong-gi and the “Comfort Women” surrounding the U.S. military’s air raids that took place on the Kerama Islands, Okinawa.
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- The rooms of the surviving “Comfort Women” – Songnisan Lee Ok-sun's room
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Songnisan Grandmother had anticipated that she would live in Songnisan for the rest of her life but ended up coming to the <House of Sharing> in the fall of 2018 after having knee surgery which made it difficult for her to easily move around.
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