Japan’s Me Too Movement and the ‘Comfort Women’ Issue (Part 1)

<b id="docs-internal-guid-b02c3c71-7fff-e887-77f8-cd6e3e0ded41">Kyung-hee Cho, Assistant Professor, Institute for East Asian Studies, Sungkonghoe University </b>

• 2019-10-24
• Kyung-hee Cho

Japan’s Me Too Movement and ‘Comfort Women’ Issue (Part 2)

<b id="docs-internal-guid-b02c3c71-7fff-e887-77f8-cd6e3e0ded41">Kyung-hee Cho, Assistant Professor, Institute for East Asian Studies, Sungkonghoe University </b>

• 2019-12-24
• Kyung-hee Cho

The Meaning of the Berlin Statue of Peace for Us: A Global Case of Success in the Postcolonial Feminist Movement

The Berlin Statue of Peace, established in 2020, marked an important milestone in the “Comfort Women” memorial movement as the first public memorial of its kind in Europe.

• 2025-09-17
• Jung-Hwa Han

“Comfort Women” Issue and Japanese Legislative Movement Part 2

The male-centric society in Japan is the root cause of the “Comfort Women” issue. Ultimately, I am convinced that this structural problem is why the Japanese National Diet has been unable to enact legislation on its own.

• 2023-07-24
• Totsuka Etsuro (戶塚悅朗)

“Comfort Women” Issue and Japanese Legislative Movement Part 1

All things considered, Japan must bear responsibility as a nation. To reignite the movement, a civic movement aimed at achieving legislative resolution was needed. In December 1996, the “Gathering for Legislative Resolution of the “Comfort Women” Issue” was established, with Attorney Tsuchiya Koken as the Chairman, Professor Arai Shinichi from Surugadai University as the Vice Chairman, and Arimitsu Ken serving as the Secretariat Liaison.

• 2023-07-17
• Totsuka Etsuro (戶塚悅朗)