Abstract: »This thesis studies how the Japanese modern ruling parties see their historical responsibility in the comfort women issue in South Korea. In order to understand the political stance of the ruling parties, this paper analyzed political debates in the Japanese parliament in three different periods. The first period is between 1991 and 1993; the second 1994 to 1996; the third is 2014. Each period has an important event related to the comfort women issue that happened around either within or around that period. Analysis was conducted based on a theoretical framework on historial national responsibility. This research found out that in the first two periods, the political speeches by the ruling parties in the parliament showed intentions to take responsibility in regards to acknowledging facts, apologizing and paying reparations to certain extent. However, in the third period the ruling parties failed to take responsibility. Moreover, in all of the periods, the ruling parties failed to ensure preservation of memories as well as implementing history education on the comfort women issue.« (Source: DiVA)

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