2015/01/02 by SinCheol Lee, Hyein Han · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Communism, Protests, Social Movements #Chinese history and philosophy #Japanese History and Culture #China #Government (linguistics) #Comfort women #Political science #Government Office #Public administration #Local government #Law
paper · doi:10.1080/12259276.2015.1029229
openalex publication_date 2015/01/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Until recently, the most important investigation on the issues of the “comfort women” was carried out by the Japanese government in the early 1990s. In the meantime, data from the Government-General of Korea (1910-1945) were never comprehensively investigated. As for the comfort women-related data from occupied China, even access to these has been difficult. To overcome this situation, a group of researchers that included us, recently formed a research team and began investigating data at the National Archives of Korea, the Shanghai Municipal Archives and Nanjing Municipal Archives, in China. This paper analyzes the significance of the new findings we made at these archives. Compared to the documents found by the Japanese investigation in the 1990s, our findings, in China in particular, give much more detailed information about the wartime recruitment and operation of “comfort women” and the military comfort stations.