The Absence of Consensus in Japan over the Issue of Comfort Women--With the Case of the Asian Women’s Fund from the Approach of Ontological Security
The Absence of Consensus in Japan over the Issue of Comfort Women--With the Case of the Asian Women’s Fund from the Approach of Ontological Security
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日本在慰安妇问题上缺乏共识--从本体安全的角度看亚洲妇女基金会
DOI：
10.1093/ssjj/jyv009
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
Naoko Kumagai
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作者：
Giorgio SHANI;安江則子;Giorgio Shani;安江則子;安江則子;Giorgio Shani;安江則子;Giorgio Shani;安江則子;Giorgio Shani;安江則子;Giorgio Shani;Giorgio Shani;安江則子;Naoko Kumagai;Giorgio SHANI;Naoko Kumagai
本文分析了保守派和自由派在日本慰安妇问题上缺乏建设性的对话，尽管作为日本战争责任的一部分，他们对这个问题都有明确的担忧。以亚洲妇女基金会的慰安妇赎罪项目为例，本文认为，双方的本体论不安全感支配了他们对这一问题的理解，双方都未能理解亚洲妇女基金会提出的日本新概念，即日本政府和日本人民共同组成一个新的公共实体，共同为受害者赎罪。特别关注日本荣誉的强硬派保守派对任何对前慰安妇的赎罪行为感到愤怒，他们辩称，许多人是自愿工作的，而作为幸存者代表的反基金自由派人士则反对对慰安妇问题进行任何修正主义和家长式的解释，并坚持要求只有日本政府才能给予真正的官方赔偿。强硬派保守派的言论大大降低了日本在这一问题上的态度在受害国眼中的可信度，而反对IMF的自由派人士通过集中批评IMF，未能面对他们真正的竞争对手--强硬派保守派。
This paper analyzes the absence of a constructive dialogue about the issue of comfort women in Japan between conservatives and liberals in spite of their respective clear concerns about the issue as part of Japan’s war responsibility. With the case of the Asian Women’s Fund’s atonement project for former comfort women, this paper suggests that both sides’ ontological insecurity controlled their interpretations of the issue and that both sides failed to understand a new notion of Japan, as proposed by the Asian Women’s Fund, in which both the Japanese government and Japanese people constitute a new public entity and act jointly to render atonement to the victims. Hardline conservatives, giving special attention to Japan’s honor, took umbrage at any atonement for former comfort women, arguing that many worked voluntarily, while anti-Fund liberals, as survivors’ representatives, guarded against any revisionist and patriarchal interpretation of the comfort women issue and persisted in pushing for truly official compensation only by the Japanese government. Hardline conservatives’ rhetoric significantly decreased the credibility of Japan’s attitude toward the issue in the eyes of the victims’ countries, while the anti-Fund liberals, by focusing their criticism against the Fund, failed to face their real rivals, hardline conservatives.