related issues--comfort women

The controversy over Japanese sexual slavery system has been a heated issue since the 1980s and there have been many works about the so-called comfort women. Some write in Japanese, some write in Korean, some write in Chinese, and some write in English. These works, whether they are supportive to the surviving victims or not, have contributed to the knowledge production about comfort women. Among these works, there are some written by Asian American, or to be more exact, Korean American writers. It seems that the war memories at home have traveled across the ocean to the new homeland.

Here are some novels about comfort women:

Park, Therese S. A Gift of the Emperor. Duluth, MN: Spinsters Ink, 1997.
Keller, Nora Okja. Comfort Woman. 1997. New York: Penguin, 1998.
Lee, Chang-rae. A Gesture Life. New York: Riverhead Books, 1999.

And, beside the works written by Korean American writers, it is important to mention that there are two survivors' autobiographies. They are:
Henson, Maria Rosa. Comfort Woman: A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery under the   Japanese Military. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.
Ruff-O'Herne, Jan. Fifty Years of Silence. 1994. Sydney: Random House Australia, 2008.


Some reviews, discussions, and works about comfort women:

• Ahmed, Afreen R. "The Shame of Hwang v. Japan: How the International Community Has Failed Asia's 'Comfort Women.'" Texas Journal of Women and the Law 14 (2004): 121-49.
• Carroll, Hamilton. "Traumatic Patriarchy: Reading Gendered Nationalisms in Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture   Life." MFS: Moder Fiction Studies 51.3 (2005): 592-616.
• Chen, Tina. Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture. Standford: Standford UP, 2005.
• Chen, Kuan-hsing陳光興, and Li Chao-jin李朝金, eds. Reflections on Theses of Taiwan: Dialogues between Critical Circles in Taiwan and Japan《反思《台灣論》：台日批判圈的內部對話》. Taipei: Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, 2005.
• Choi, Chungmoo, ed. The Comfort Women: Colonialism, War, and Sex. Spec. issue of positions 5.1 (1997).
• Chuh, Kandice. "Discomforting Knowledge, or, Korean 'Comfort Women' and Asian American Critical Practice." Journal of Asian American Studies 6.1 (2003):5-23.
• Enloe, Cynthia. Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives. Berkeley: U of California P, 2000.
• Hicks, George L. The Comfort Women: the Sex Slaves of the Imperial Japanese Forces. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1995.
• Jerng, Mark C. "Recognizing the Transracial Adoptee: Adoption Life Stories and Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life." MELUS 31.2 (2006) 41-67.
  
• Kang, Laura Hyun Yi. “Conjuring ‘Comfort Women’: Mediated Affiliations and Disciplined Subjects in Korean/American Transnationality.” Journal of Asian American Studies 6.1 (2003): 25–55.
• Kim, Elaine H. “Dangerous Affinities: Korean American Feminisms (En)counter Gendered Korean and Racialized U.S. Nationalist Narratives.” Hitting Critical Mass 6.1 (1999): 1-12.
  
• Kinue, Tokudome. “Passage of H. Res. 121 on ‘Comfort Women’, the US Congress and Historical Memory in Japan.” The Asia-Pacific Journal. 30 August 2007. 11 February 2009. http://www.japanfocus.org/products/details/2510 >.
  
• Kotler, Mindy. “Prepared Testimony of Protecting the Human Rights of Comfort Women.” 15 February 2007. 29 June 2009.
  < http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/110/kot021507.htm>.
  
• Lee, Kun Jong. “Princess Pari in Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman.” positions 12.2
  
  (2004): 431-56.
  
• Lee, Young-Oak. “Gender, Race, and the Nation in A Gesture Life.” CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 46.2 (2005): 146-59.
  
• Mitsui, Hideko. “The Politics of National Atonement and Narrations of War.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 9.1 (2008): 47-61.
  
• Onishi, Norimitsu. “Sex Slave Dispute Follows Abe Even as He Bonds with Bush.” The New York Times. 29 April 2007. 29 June 2009.
  <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/29/world/asia/29japan.html?_r=1&oref=slogin>.
  
• Sayers, Valerie. “Little Comfort Given.” 17 December 1999. 29 June 2009.
  <http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1252/is_22_126/ai_58675385>.
  
•  Schultermandl, Silvia. “Writing Rape, Trauma, and Transnationality onto the Female Body. Matrilineal Em-body-ment in Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman.” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 7.2 (2007): 71-100.
  
• Soh, Chunghee Sarah. “The Korean ‘Comfort Women’: Movement for Redress.” Asian Survey 36.12 (Dec.1996): 1226-40.
  
• Smith, Sidonie. “Belated Narrating: ‘Grandmothers’ Telling Stories of Forced Sexual Servitude during World War II.” Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition. Eds. Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 124-52.
  
• “Statement by the Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono on the Result of the Study on the Issue of ‘Comfort Women’”〈慰安婦関係調査結果発表に関する—河野内閣官房長官談話〉. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. 4 August 1992. 29 June 2009. < http://www.mofa.go.jp/MOFAJ/area/taisen/kono.html ;
  http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/women/fund/state9308.html>.
  
• Taipei Women’s Rescue Foundation 婦女救援基金會, Graceia Lai 賴采兒, Wu Hui-ling 吳慧玲, and Yu Ju-fen 游茹棻eds. Silent Scars: History of Sexual Slavery by the Japanese Military—A Pictorial Book《沉默的傷痕：日軍慰安婦歷史影像書》. Trans. Sheng-mei Ma 馬聖美. Taipei: The Commercial Press, 2005.
  
• The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan. 2001. 29 June 2009. <http://www.womenandwar.net/english/index.php>.
  
• Yang, Hyunah. “Finding the ‘Map of Memory’: Testimony of the Japanese Military Slavery Survivors.” positions 16.1 (2008): 79-107.
  
• Yoneyama, Lisa. “Traveling Memories, Contagious Justice: Americanization of Japanese War Crimes at the End of the Post-Cold War.” Journal of Asian American Studies 6.1 (2003): 57–93.
  
• Yoshimi, Yoshiaki吉見義明. Jugun Ianfu《従軍慰安婦》. Tokyo: Iwanami Shinsho, 1995.
  
• Zhu, De-lan朱德蘭. Taiwanese Comfort Women《台灣慰安婦》. Taipei: Wu-Nan Books, 2009.