Meeting the first-generation researcher, to remember the first step - (2) Song Yeon-ok

She is an Emeritus Professor of Aoyama Gakuin University. As a Korean in Japan (a Zainichi Korean) and a researcher who laid the foundation for the studies of colonial history and women's history in Japan, she has been playing an important role in investigating the truth about the ‘Comfort Women’ issue. Her main publications include 『Military and Sexual Violence』, 『A Study on the East Asia Japanese military sexual slavery (co-authorship)』, 『A Study of 70 Years of Women's History in Korea (co-authorship)』, 『Colonialism, War, ‘Comfort Women’ for the Military (co-authorship)』, 『War and Social Affairs in East Asia(co-authorship)』, and so on.

• 2019-03-16
• Editorial Team of Webzine <Kyeol>

“Rape and Gender Violence are part of TRC’s Unfinished Business”: South Africa’s Ongoing Quest for Gender Justice (1)

Colonialism and apartheid were both predicated on the marginalization and subjugation of the population in terms of race, gender, class, sexual orientation, and culture.

• 2023-12-11
• Helen Scanlon

Do You Deserve the “You Did Good” Speech?

The Philippines’ ninth Periodic Report on the implementation of the CEDAW cites the Safe Spaces Act and the Anti-Mail Order Spouse Act, but there is no mention of the “Comfort Women.” When asked, the Philippine Commission on Women gives sympathetic statements

• 2023-06-12
• BERNARD KARGANILLA

A New Political Horizon Opening with Wounds - Report on the International Conference on Women’s Rights and Peace 2022

The Japanese military “comfort women” have been a subject of transnational feminism that criticizes the patriarchy of war and talks about peace and a symbol connected to the unfinished issue, sexual violence against women.

• 2022-11-28
• Kim Eun-ha

Meeting the first-generation researcher, to remember the first step - (3) Kang Jeong-sook

Kang Jeong-sook majored in the women's history of modern Korea, and currently works as a researcher at the Centre for East Asian History at Sungkyunkwan University. She contributed greatly to the early studies on the ‘Comfort Women’, by investigating the truth of the ‘Comfort Women’ issue, recording the testimonies of the ‘Comfort Women’ victims, etc. while working at the Korean Institute of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery and the Truth Commission on Forced Mobilization.

• 2019-03-16
• Editorial Team of Webzine <Kyeol>