By Maki Kimura
This examine bargains a clean standpoint at the 'comfort girls' debates. It argues that the procedure may be understood because the mechanism of the intersectional oppression of gender, race, classification and colonialism, whereas illuminating the significance of tales of victim-survivors because the website the place ladies get well and achieve their voices and organizations.
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Feminism has not only criticized the system of male dominance, but has also attempted to eradicate this masculine structure by defying the dichotomy between men and women itself. However, this, she argued, has overshadowed other social and cultural differences such as race, ethnicity and sexuality that intersect with gender differences and generate inequalities. Ogoshi claimed that feminists are now more conscious of diversities among both men and women – categories that have long been regarded as pre-given and fixed (Ogoshi, 1996; 2000b: 296–7).
40 Unfolding the ‘Comfort Women’ Debates Despite the difference in their interpretations of when the modern era started in Japan, all these critics regard the Japanese wartime fascist experience as ‘deviant’, ‘aberrant’, or something ‘outside’ of modernity, and attribute its causes to specific socio-cultural factors in Japan (Ueno, 1998: 20; Narita, 2006: 25). This widely shared view of deviation in Japanese history has been pointed out by critics such as Yamanouchi Yasushi and J. Victor Koschmann.
For example, a literary critic, Kato Norihiro, argued that in order to offer a sincere apology to non-Japanese victims of the Pacific War in Asia, establishing a national subject through the process of mourning for Japan’s war dead, both soldiers and civilian victims, is first required (Kato, 1995: 286; Koschmann, 2000: 741). The logic behind his argument is that because of the post-war paradigm that was developed under the US occupation, the Pacific War was condemned as having been initiated by an unjust Japanese invasion, so that Japan’s war 46 Unfolding the ‘Comfort Women’ Debates dead have been disrespected and ignored.
