2023
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- “Comfort Women” Issue and Japanese Legislative Movement Part 1
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All things considered, Japan must bear responsibility as a nation. To reignite the movement, a civic movement aimed at achieving legislative resolution was needed. In December 1996, the “Gathering for Legislative Resolution of the “Comfort Women” Issue” was established, with Attorney Tsuchiya Koken as the Chairman, Professor Arai Shinichi from Surugadai University as the Vice Chairman, and Arimitsu Ken serving as the Secretariat Liaison.
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- Do You Deserve the “You Did Good” Speech?
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The Philippines’ ninth Periodic Report on the implementation of the CEDAW cites the Safe Spaces Act and the Anti-Mail Order Spouse Act, but there is no mention of the “Comfort Women.” When asked, the Philippine Commission on Women gives sympathetic statements
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- Documenting Imperial Japanese Military’s Atrocities Against Women in China
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While warfare continues inflicting damage and suffering in today’s world, and rape of women is still used as an instrument of armed conflicts, it is critical to bring the narratives of the “Comfort Women” into public memory.
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- Sad Paradise of Taiwan During the Cold War, Paradise in Service
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The Japanese comfort stations disappeared as World War II ended with Japan's defeat. However, this was not the end of them.
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- Japanese Military “Comfort Women” in the Dutch East Indies and the Batavia Temporary Court Martial
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Notably, the Batavia Court Martial adjudicated a case involving the Japanese military’s exploitation of Dutch women as “Comfort Women.” This stood as the only trial that addressed perpetrators who abducted women for the purpose of forced prostitution among post-World War II war crime tribunals under international law.
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