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106801
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2011.
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As a key part of contemporary Japanese mass visual culture, manga has increasingly been used to shape popular perceptions of history. In recent years, there has been a great deal of discussion surrounding politically conservative and revisionist manga that distort the military's actions during Japan's wars throughout the 1930s and 1940s. In regard to the issue of enforced military prostitution, victims, activists, and scholars have found the depiction of so-called 'comfort women' as willing prostitutes or participants to be extremely offensive. Compared to these revisionist works, there are other artists who look to address and faithfully represent and depict the military prostitution issue in manga. Unlike their revisionist counterparts, these artists grapple with the inherent sensitivities of such an issue and struggle with ways to communicate the brutality of gendered violence. These works illustrate important similarities and differences in how artists structure and frame historical narratives in manga. More importantly, the works raise questions about the impossibility of adequately conveying the experiences of soldiers and victims during the war. They also serve as a reminder to the diversity of representations in contemporary Japanese discourse.
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098375
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2010.
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For many years, victims of Japanese wartime enforced labour have published or contributed to collections of memoirs and testimonies. These testimonies and the subsequent historical analyses by researchers since the early 1960s have often been framed against contemporaneous issues. What started out as a way to help stir activism and a historical consciousness among resident Koreans in Japan has morphed into a struggle over textbooks and a fight against historical revisionism. This article identifies some of the historical and methodological issues present in constructing a historical discourse of enforced Korean labour that began in 1939. It reassesses the politicised meaning of the phrase ky?sei renk? (forced recruitment) and argues that both researchers, who acknowledge the wartime system of enforced labour, and revisionists, who deny it, have cogent arguments. These arguments, however, are often narrow in scope and fail to take into account testimonies that present a more complex picture of the period and system in question.
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