Author: Subin Nam, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, Universität Bonn (University of Bonn)

Abstract: »Subin Nam’s chapter portrays the different layers of international politics and regulations which might have contributed to making ‘comfort women’ stateless, and the international factors which kept the ‘comfort women’ issue unchecked and unaddressed for decades.« (Source: Ginés-Blasi, Mònica. »Introduction: Concealment in Labour Coercion and Dependency in Asia.« Intentional Invisibilization in Modern Asian History: Concealing and Self-Concealed Agents. Edited by Mònica Ginés-Blasi. Berlin 2025: 15)

Contents:

	1 Introduction (p. 73)
	2 Concealed and Self-Concealed (p. 75)
		2.1 In Mainland Japan (p. 75)
		2.2 In Liberated Yet Occupied Okinawa (p. 78)
		2.3 South Korea’s “Ignorance” (p. 80)
	3 Invisibilization (p. 82)
		3.1 The Fight against Communism (p. 83)
		3.2 In/visibilizing ‘Comfort Women’ (p. 85)
	4 Conclusion (p. 88)
	Sources (p. 89)
	Bibliography (p. 90)

Wikipedia: History of Asia: History of Japan / Shōwa era | History of Asia: History of Korea / Korea under Japanese rule | Prostitution: Forced prostitution / Comfort women | Sex and the law: Wartime sexual violence / Wartime sexual violence in World War II | War: Pacific War / Japanese war crimes