This study discussed the representation of ‘Karayuki-san,’ which led to ‘Japanese comfort women,’ focusing on the period from the early modern times before the Sino-Japanese War. In early modern times, Karayuki-san was represented as ‘ladies of pleasure,’ the disgrace of the country as Christianity and sexual morality were introduced from the west, which had been represented as ‘filial daughters’; however, as its necessity was raised, it formed the central axis supporting Japan’s Imperialist policy. To investigate ‘Prostitute’ Okiyo, who was degraded to a sexual tool, Okiyo internalized herself as a heterogeneous, alienated being who denied her own identity as she was excluded from Japanese people and Japanese women. As examined in this study, it is clear that Japan’s registered prostitution system was human trafficking and sex slavery. Japan has recognized the fact that the registered prostitution and prostitution is a crime since the early modern times. Therefore, it is judged that the scheme that ‘comfort women = prostitutes’ and ‘comfort women = registered prostitutes’ were sex slaves and sex criminals, as insisted by the Japanese right wing and the logic that it was an Asian culture of ‘filial piety,’ in which they were voluntary prostitutes for supporting their families, are just poor excuses for refusing to apologize.
한국일본언어문화학회 [Japanese Language & Culture Association of Korea]
설립연도
2001
분야
인문학>일본어와문학
소개
본 학회는 일본어학 및 일본문학은 물론, 일본의 정치, 경제, 문화, 사회 등의 일본학 전반에 걸친 연구 및 일본의 언어, 문화를 매체로 한 한국과의 비교 연구를 대상으로 하고 있다. 본 학회는 회원들에게 연구 발표 및 정보 교환의 기회를 부여하고 나아가 한국에서의 바람직한 일본 연구 자세를 확립하는 것을 주된 목표로 하고 있다.