What the World Owes the Comfort Women

Abstract The women who served in Japan’s military brothels across Asia during the Second World War are a focus of politics memory East as well touchstone for international human rights and sexual violence against women. By 1990s, “comfort women” had become “traveling trope,” which like Holocaust, both recognized transcended its original time place. Gluck traces their “coming into memory” through changes five areas evolving postwar “global culture”: law, testimony, rights, politics, notions responsibility. She shows how ideas practices public changed over time, course comfort became victims” transnational memoryscape.