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Park Statue Politics: World War II Comfort Women Memorials in the United States

Park Statue Politics: World War II Comfort Women Memorials in the United States

Ward, Thomas J.
Lay, William D.

Paperback

Japanese HistoryKorean HistoryWorld War II

ISBN10: 1910814504
ISBN13: 9781910814505
Publisher: E-International Relations
Published: Feb 14 2019
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Numerous academics have researched Japan's dehumanizing comfort women system that, for decades, forced innocents into sexual slavery. Since 2010 a campaign has been in place to proliferate comfort women memorials in the United States. These memorials now span from New York to California and from Texas to Michigan. They recount only the Korean version of this history, which this text finds incomplete. They do not mention that, immediately following World War II, American soldiers also frequented Japan's comfort women stations. They say nothing of how, to the present day, GIs continue to patronize Asian women and girls organized in brothels near their barracks. The Korean narrative also ignores the significant role that Koreans played in recruiting women and girls into the system. Intentionally or not, comfort women memorials in the United States promote a political agenda rather than transparency, accountability and reconciliation.

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