Abstract
In this Article, I seek to place the “comfort women” reparation movement in East Asia’s broader colonial and post-colonial legal history. This Article will follow a largely chronological order with discussion of relevant legal points. Part II narrates the history of political and legal developments since the Imperial Japan period that set the stage for the “comfort women” reparation movement from the 1990s. In Part III, I will discuss the main legal issues concerning the Japanese reparation. Parts IV and V will explore and analyze the redress efforts at the U.N. human-rights bodies in the 1990s and the South Korean judiciary since the 2000s respectively.
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Shin, Ethan Hee-Seok
(2021)
"The "Comfort Women" Reparation Movement: Between Universal Women's Human Right and Particular Anti-Colonial Nationalism,"
Florida Journal of International Law: Vol. 28:
Iss.
1, Article 3.
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/fjil/vol28/iss1/3