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Narratives of Violence: Colonialism, Gender and Sexual Violence in Japan and Korea

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  • This thesis challenges South Korea’s state-sponsored and activist-serving narratives about the Korean comfort women, who were forced to work as sex slaves in Japan’s wartime military brothels. Comfort women have provided testimonies about their wartime experiences that have drawn significant attention to the atrocities committed against them by the Japanese military. The South Korean government and activist groups have appropriated these testimonies to develop historical narratives which assume the evil nature of the Japanese empire and the victimization of the Korean people. However, these narratives exclude the history of Korean complicity with the Japanese empire despite comfort women unequivocally stating that Koreans assisted in their abuse. Mainstream narratives also ignore the brothels later set up in both Japan and South Korea for the United States military. By analyzing the testimonies of former comfort women, I argue that the United States and Republic of Korea share responsibility alongside Japan for the sexual exploitation of women during the mid-to-late twentieth century
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