Author: Anna-Karin Eriksson, Institutionen för globala studier (School of Global Studies ), Göteborgs universitet (University of Gothenburg) - Academia.edu, Google Scholar, ORCID

Abstracts:
- »Anna-Karin Eriksson’s chapter addresses the intersections of historical justice and history education in the history of ‘comfort women’ in Japan. Eriksson studies the organisation of ‘comfort women discourse’ as a false dichotomy which has created an unnecessary forced choice between gender justice and the victor’s narrative and the victor’s justice.« (Source: Mati Keynes, Henrik Åström Elmersjö, Daniel Lindmark, and Björn Norlin. »Introduction: Connecting Historical Justice and History Education.« Historical Justice and History Education. Edited by Mati Keynes. Cham 2023: 13)

- »As ‘comfort women’ are omitted from history textbooks, the Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace in Tokyo remains the only permanent educational venue about the ‘comfort system’ in Japan. Meanwhile, the influential Yasukuni Shrine with its adjacent Yūshūkan War Memorial Museum, also in Tokyo, continues to deny ‘comfort system’ history. While ‘comfort women’ discourse organises these two museums as competitors over history, this chapter scrutinises the claims that are made in each museum and concludes by suggesting that ‘comfort system’ history can co-exist with official mourning in one history if mourning is disentangled from bereavement, since bereavement, but not mourning, enables the ideological appropriation of the war-dead that forms the core of the militarism advocacy that denies ‘comfort system’ history.« (Source: SpringerLink)

Contents:

	Introduction (p. 177)
	A History of Controversy (p. 179)
	Analytical Framework (p. 181)
	Entangled Histories (p. 182)
	Juridified Histories (p. 185)
	Educationalised Histories (p. 188)
	Openings: Rethinking Intersections of Historical Justice and History Education in ‘Comfort Women’ Discourse (p. 191)
	Notes (p. 192)
	References (p. 193)

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