Table of Contents
Chapter 1 – Introduction: Collective Memories of Sexual Slavery under the Japanese Imperial Military
Chapter 2 – The Memories of Sexual Slavery in Japan from 1945 to the 1960s: Romantic Stories of Forbidden Love
Chapter 3 – The Memories of Sexual Slavery in Japan from the 1970s to 1990: Japanese War Guilt, Victims, and Romanticized Memories
Chapter 4 – The Memories of Sexual Slavery from 1991 to 2015: Nationalist Memories
Chapter 5 – The Memories of Sexual Slavery from 1991 to 2015: Progressive Memories
Chapter 6 – The Memories of Sexual Slavery in Japan from 2015 to the Present: The 2015 Bilateral Agreement and ‘Comfort Women’ Statues
Chapter 7 – Reflections on Memories of Sexual Slavery in Japan and South Korea
Ako Inuzuka is associate professor of communication at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.
"This beautifully written book unpacks the works of memory
constructions of ‘comfort women,’ a highly contentious issue in
East Asia. Deeply engaged with influential popular texts in Japan
over the span of past seven decades, Inuzuka illustrates how one of
the harrowing atrocities that occurred during the Asian-Pacific war
has been collectively remembered and forgotten in competing public
discourses. This book will attract researchers in the fields of
Asian studies, history, intercultural communication, and women &
gender studies."
*Hsin-I Cheng, Middle Tennessee State University*
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory
against forgetting,” so goes one of the most memorable lines in
Milan Kundera’s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. In this
searing, extraordinary work, Ako Inuzuka powerfully demonstrates
the constitutive role of rhetoric in the construction of Japanese
memories of the sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War
Two. Inuzuka’s book does more than make a powerful intervention in
fields as varied as intellectual history, critical race studies,
gender studies, and rhetorical criticism. It’s courageous
archaeology of her own experience invites readers into a collective
practice of re-membering; that is, of knitting together a new
politics of justice, solidarity, and freedom.
*Omedi Ochieng, Denison University*
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