Voices of the Korean minority in postwar Japan : histories against the grain
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Voices of the Korean minority in postwar Japan : histories against the grain
(Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia, 40)
Routledge, 2019
- : hbk
Available at 12 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
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  Gunma
  Saitama
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  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
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  France
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
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