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Striving for “Normalization” - Korea-Japan Civic Cooperation and the Attempt to Resolve the “Comfort Women” problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Gavan McCormack
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Introduction

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Fifty years have passed since relations between Japan and South Korea were “normalized.” Yet they remain in fact far from “normal.” Seventy years since the Japanese colonial empire collapsed the issue of the wartime “comfort women” system continues to bedevil relations and defy solution. It remains probably the most hotly contested among outstanding issues between the two countries, issues that include forced labor and a multitude of atrocities committed during the colonial era extending to 1945.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 13 , Issue 24 , June 2015 , e2
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References

Notes

1 For a very recent discussion, see Yan Minja, Chang Rok Kim and Wada Haruki, “‘Ianfu’ mondai no kaiketsu wa nani ka,” Sekai, July 2015, pp. 158-173.

2 See document in Japanese linked above and English below.

3 See document in English here.

4 See here.

5 Adopted at 12th Asian Solidarity Conference to resolve the Japanese Army's “Comfort Women” Problem, June 2, 2014.