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Voices of the Korean Minority in Postwar Japan
Histories Against the Grain
Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia Series
Author: Ropers Erik
Language: EnglishSubject for Voices of the Korean Minority in Postwar Japan:
Keywords
Zainichi Korean; Young Man; Zainichi; comfort women; memory; Korean history; post-war Japan; Military Prostitution; Zainichi Korean Community; Korean minorities; Korean Hibakusha; postwar Japanese; Conservative Researchers; zainichi Koreans’ democratic rights; Forced Recruitment; Korean Survivors; Nikutai Bungaku; Comfort Women; National Mobilization Law; Symbolic Emperor System; Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal; Korean Community Resident; Ueno Chizuko; Japan’s Colonial History; Korean Laborers; Emperor System; Korean Community; Community History Groups; Japanese Hibakusha; Korean Women; Korean Victims; Korean Minority; War Responsibility
Publication date: 09-2020
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 12-2018
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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Shedding new light on how the histories of zainichi Koreans have been written, consumed, and discussed, this book addresses the roots of postwar debates concerning the wartime experiences of Koreans in Japan.
Providing an overview of the complicated historiography, it explores the experiences of Koreans located at Ground Zero in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as the history and processes that coerced Korean women into military prostitution. These debates and controversies continue to attract attention regionally and globally, and as this book demonstrates, they are deeply embedded in ideas dating back decades earlier. By tracing the roots of these debates in historical writings from local history groups to zainichi and Japanese scholars, we may see how written histories have been used for particular social, political, or cultural purposes, and how they have lent support to certain interpretations and memories of past events across the political spectrum.
Interdisciplinary at its core, Voices of the Korean Minority in Postwar Japan will appeal to audiences including those interested in modern Japanese and Korean history, historiography and methodology, and memory studies.
1. Introduction 2. Foundational Narratives of Forced Recruitment and Forced Labor 3. History and the Politics of Testimony: Koreans Are/not Victims of Forced Recruitment 4. Contested Spaces of Ethnicity: zainichi Korean Accounts of the Atomic Bombings 5. Journalists’ and Citizens’ Debates: Early Narratives of Enforced Military Prostitution 6. Telling the Story Today: Problematizing the so-called "Comfort Women Issue" Epilogue
Erik Ropers is Associate Professor of History and Director of Asian Studies at Towson University, USA.