なぜ「慰安婦」はこれほどバッシングされるのか : 性暴力をめぐる新たな認識をめざして

牟田, 和恵; ムタ, カズエ; Muta, Kazue

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Title	なぜ「慰安婦」はこれほどバッシングされるのか : 性暴力をめぐる新たな認識をめざして
	Towards a New Understanding of Sexual Violence : Examining the Public Bashing of “Comfort Women” in Contemporary Japan
	ナゼ　イアンフ　ハ　コレホド　バッシング　サレル　ノカ　セイ　ボウリョク　ヲ　メグル　アラタナ　ニンシキ　オ　メザシテ
Creator	NRID 1000080201804 1000080201804 CreatorName 牟田, 和恵 ; ムタ, カズエ ; Muta, Kazue
Subject	Comfort women
	fabrication of consent
	Japan
	sexual violence
	#MeToo
Abstract	The perception and understanding surrounding the issue of ‘comfort women’ (ianfu) among Japanese people have become critically adverse in the last twenty years, especially since Abe Shinto took his office in 2006. Survivors of Japanese military sexual slavery during the Asia-Pacific War were euphemistically labelled “comfort women”, and have been met with verbal attacks from the Japanese right-wingers, including influential politicians and celebrities. They even call the survivors ‘prostitutes’, which not only degrades them but negates the historical atrocity by imperial Japan. This paper examines the deep rooted discrimination against ‘prostitutes’ and tries to disarticulate buying sex and rape. As long as we define rape as unwanted sexual conduct forced by power, buying sex also can be understood as rape because the ‘consent’ is fabricated by economic power, if we think it in a radical sense. The argument goes further to discuss the “speaking out” activities and movements against sexual violence and sexual harassment in the contemporary world, such as #MeToo. The movement does not only attract supporters but is meeting reactionary attack especially in Japan. The movement seems to fuel anger because it is trying to challenge patriarchal gender order in Japan. In conclusion, this paper seeks how to change the perceptual framework of sexual violence. If Anthony Giddens is correct in his pointing out that a large part of the phenomenon of male sexual violence now stems from insecurity and inadequacy among men and that violence is a destructive reaction to the waning of female complicity, our challenge should be more difficult, but nevertheless worth more challenging.
Publisher	松香堂書店
Publisher	ショウカドウ　ショテン
Source Title	架橋するフェミニズム : 歴史・性・暴力
Page	3-12
Date of Issued	2018-03-20
Language	Japanese
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DC.title	なぜ「慰安婦」はこれほどバッシングされるのか : 性暴力をめぐる新たな認識をめざして
	Towards a New Understanding of Sexual Violence : Examining the Public Bashing of “Comfort Women” in Contemporary Japan
	ナゼ　イアンフ　ハ　コレホド　バッシング　サレル　ノカ　セイ　ボウリョク　ヲ　メグル　アラタナ　ニンシキ　オ　メザシテ
DC.creator	牟田, 和恵
	ムタ, カズエ
	Muta, Kazue
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DC.subject	Comfort women
	fabrication of consent
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	#MeToo
DCTERMS.abstract	The perception and understanding surrounding the issue of ‘comfort women’ (ianfu) among Japanese people have become critically adverse in the last twenty years, especially since Abe Shinto took his office in 2006. Survivors of Japanese military sexual slavery during the Asia-Pacific War were euphemistically labelled “comfort women”, and have been met with verbal attacks from the Japanese right-wingers, including influential politicians and celebrities. They even call the survivors ‘prostitutes’, which not only degrades them but negates the historical atrocity by imperial Japan. This paper examines the deep rooted discrimination against ‘prostitutes’ and tries to disarticulate buying sex and rape. As long as we define rape as unwanted sexual conduct forced by power, buying sex also can be understood as rape because the ‘consent’ is fabricated by economic power, if we think it in a radical sense. The argument goes further to discuss the “speaking out” activities and movements against sexual violence and sexual harassment in the contemporary world, such as #MeToo. The movement does not only attract supporters but is meeting reactionary attack especially in Japan. The movement seems to fuel anger because it is trying to challenge patriarchal gender order in Japan. In conclusion, this paper seeks how to change the perceptual framework of sexual violence. If Anthony Giddens is correct in his pointing out that a large part of the phenomenon of male sexual violence now stems from insecurity and inadequacy among men and that violence is a destructive reaction to the waning of female complicity, our challenge should be more difficult, but nevertheless worth more challenging.
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	Towards a New Understanding of Sexual Violence : Examining the Public Bashing of “Comfort Women” in Contemporary Japan
	ナゼ　イアンフ　ハ　コレホド　バッシング　サレル　ノカ　セイ　ボウリョク　ヲ　メグル　アラタナ　ニンシキ　オ　メザシテ
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