Norm Internalization through Transnational Legal Process: The Case ofIndividual Compensation for the Former Wartime Comfort Women

这项研究在日本战争责任的背景下对亚洲妇女基金进行了批判性的评估，这个问题在第二次世界大战结束65年多后仍未得到解决。特别是，这项研究侧重于该基金关于日本政府和日本人民对前慰安妇进行道德补偿的联合项目。主要的研究问题是联合项目成功有限的原因，研究澄清了保守派和自由派基于各自对日本的形象的僵化的本体论安全，控制了他们对公私伙伴关系补偿项目的解读，从而阻碍了补偿项目的运行。保守派和自由派都认为基金由日本政府和日本人民共同实施的伦理补偿项目将威胁到他们各自的本体论安全。这导致他们对赔偿项目的非理性和操纵性的解读，进而反对亚洲妇女基金会的赔偿项目。这种国内的话语干扰降低了该项目的可信度，从而导致一些前慰安妇拒绝接受基金会的补偿。本研究的两个主要贡献如下：(1)(2)日本战争责任背景下亚洲妇女基金这一较新的学术课题研究；通过对规范内化机制的澄清，说明了建构主义方法在国际关系研究中的复杂性。

This research critically assesses the Asian Women’s Fund in the context of Japan’s war responsibility, which issue is yet to be resolved even more than sixty-five years after the end of the Second World War. In particular, this research focused on the Fund’s joint project of the Japanese government and Japanese people for ethical compensation for former comfort women. The main research question was the reason for the limited success of the joint project and the research clarified that both the conservatives’ and the liberals’ rigid ontological security, based on their respective images of Japan, controlled their interpretations of the public-private partnership compensation project and thus hampered the operation of the compensation project.Both the conservatives and the liberals perceived that the Fund’s joint ethical compensation project both by the Japanese government and the Japanese people would threaten their respective ontological security. This led to their irrational andmanipulative interpretations of the compensation projects and then to their opposition to the Asian Women’s Fund’s compensation project. This domestic discursive disturbance reduced the credibility of the project, thus leading to some former comfort women’s rejection to receive compensation from the Fund.This research’s two main contributions are as follows: (1). the research of the relatively new academic subject of the Asian Women’s Fund in the context of Japan’s war responsibility; (2). The sophistication of the constructivist approach in international relations scholarship through the clarification of the mechanism of norm internalization.