"Trostfrauen" des 2. Welltkrieges - "Comfort Women"

The Asia-Pacific Journal | Japan Focus Volume 18 | Issue 6 | Number 3 | Article ID 5381 | Mar 15, 2020
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The “History Wars” and the “Comfort Woman” Issue:
Revisionism and the Right-wing in Contemporary Japan and the U.S.

Tomomi Yamaguchi

This pair of articles draws on talks by Tomomi Yamaguchi and Satoko Oka Norimatsu at the seminar “The ‘History Wars’ and the ‘Comfort Woman’ Issue: Revisionism and the Right-wing in Contemporary Japan, U.S., and Canada,”   (https://ckr.iar.ubc.ca/events/event/dr-tomomi-yamaguchi-and-satoko-oka-norimatsu-the-history-wars-and-the-comfort-woman-issue-revisionism-and-the-right-wing-in-contemporary-japan-and-the-u-s/) at the Institute of Asian Research, the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC), hosted jointly by the Centre of Korean Research and the Centre for Japanese Research, on November 21, 2019. Tomomi Yamaguchi discusses the “history wars” over the “comfort woman” issue in Japan and the U.S., followed by Satoko Oka Norimatsu’s “Canada’s ‘History Wars’: The Comfort Women and the Nanjing Massacre.” (https://apjjf.org/2020/6/Norimatsu.html)

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