Japan's National/Asian Women's Fund for "comfort women".

From: Pacific Affairs | Date: June 22, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

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After the issue of Japan's responsibility for the "comfort women" exploded in 1992, Tokyo took a series of measured steps to deal with the demands of NGOs in Japan, South Korea, and elsewhere to reveal the truth and offer state compensation to victim-survivors of the Japanese wartime military comfort system. The United Nations has come to define that system as "military sexual slavery." This paper explores the transnational politics of redress for former comfort women from a critical comparative perspective: 1) by analyzing the responses of the Japanese government ...

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