الوصف
This book addresses both the historical reality of Japanese military sexual slavery and the social movements to resolve the issue. On the basis mainly of Japanese military documents and survivors’ testimonies, it reconstructs the concept of military sexual slavery, the process through which military “comfort stations” were established, and the social structural background and reality of the institution. In addition, this volume examines the process through which the movement to resolve Japanese military sexual slavery, begun by women’s movements in South Korea, spread to Japan, Asia, and civil society organizations in the West, the raising of the issue at international organs such as the UN and the ILO, cooperation with North Korea, and the responses of the Japanese government and NGOs to this issue. It also deals with the overall reality of corporate sexual slavery, which Japan implemented from the late 1930s, and the Women’s Labor Volunteer Corps in the context of Japanese military sexual slavery. As elucidated in the first, Korean-language, edition of this work, facts and materials regarding the issue continue to be unearthed even today so that its resolution likewise remains incomplete. With official resolution including legal compensations and apologies to the victims and the punishment of the liable parties still utterly unfulfilled, the restoration of the victims’ honor and dignity has progressed on the psychological and mental level through the efforts of civil society. This book must be ceaselessly revised and supplemented in accordance with the discovery of new facts and the development of social movements and, as such, is still in the making.