PS Let's still demand justice for the Comfort Women, not just in the Philippines, but for the other countries occupied by Japan during the same time period.
Shout out to our kapitbahay Indonesia.
on Comfort Women denialism, the case against Ramseyer, + Japanese education + Asian politics more generally. Plus: her new book "Coed Revolution" on women and the new left in the 60s!
“The inhumanity of colonial memory dictates that the trauma of survivors and descendants is continually erased and repeated.”
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"Godzilla vs. Kong is an epic, monster battle-fight that isn’t meant to be sophisticated... But under the surface, there are overlapping histories of imperialism, militarism, and genocide, specifically between the United States and Japan."
http://ow.ly/1MOC50EqBI2
I have no doubt this idea came from pro-Japan Kurt Campbell, Biden's "Asia Czar" at the NSC, and SecState Tony Blinken, who pushed through the disastrous 2015 "comfort women" agreement between Tokyo and Seoul that was soundly rejected by Moon (none of the women were consulted).
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U.S. asked Japan about second Suga visit for 3-way summit with South Korea | The Japan Times https://japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/06/03/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-japan-suga-visit-summit-south-korea/…
Not to mention all the victims who were taken by physical force, especially in China, the Philippines, Timor Leste, Indonesia, Malaysia, and throughout the Pacific Islands.
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Btw: the argument "everyone was cool with human trafficking back then" simply doesn't fly re: "comfort women" system. Also: wow, almost 300 RTs of this insight! twitter.com/SayakaChatani/…
The goalposts were set by the 1993 Kono Statement.
Currently, however, Tokyo’s position on sexual violence during armed conflict is:
“Are Japanese men the only people in the world to experience sexual desire during wartime?”
Does Chicago have a place for the Statue of Peace?
Join a conversation on Weds, 6/2 at 6pm CT to learn more about "comfort women" during WWII & the Chicago-based effort to remember the power & resilience of survivors of state-sponsored sexual violence.
http://bit.ly/ChicagoMonumentProject…
Read this article and how it's framed "Germany...to pay Namibia", "the two sides". There are so many similar examples, not least S.Korea and Japan regarding comfort women. The interlocutor is always the state
Imagine witnessing a horrible atrocity, then turning to your 7 year-old daughter and saying “We need you to remember everything about this for 100 years, long after I’m dead, so you can tell Congress what happened and maybe people will believe us by then.”
It should not take two Nobel Prize winners to explain that game theory is about economics, not justifying sex slavery.
In a post-Trump world, perhaps we can all return to sanity. Let's hope.