Rethinking historical injustice and reconciliation in northeast Asia
Subtitle: the Korean experience
By: edited by Gi-Wook Shin, Soon-Won Park, and Daqing Yang.
Contributors: Shin, Gi-Wook.; Park, Soon-Won, 1949-; Yang, Daqing, 1964-
Series: Politics in Asia series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780415770934; 9780203967041
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Korea; Korea (South) -- History; Korea (South) -- Relations -- Japan; Japan -- Relations -- Korea (South)
Notes: Gift of the Korea Foundation.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Coming to terms with the darker past in Korea; title: 1. The Korean "comfort women" tragedy as structural violence / Chunghee Sarah Soh; title: 2. The resignification of the "comfort women" through NGO trials / Hideko Mitsui; title: 3. The politics of remembrance : the case of Korean forced laborers in the Second World War / Soon-won Park; title: 4. The war against the "enemy within" : hidden massacres in the early stages of the Korean War / Dong-choon Kim; title: 5. Justice incomplete : the remedies for the victims of Jeju April Third Incidents / Tae-Ung Baik; title: 6. From Seoul to Saigon: Gook meets Charlie / Kyung-yoong Bay; title: Part II. Toward a Northeast Asian approach to historical injustice?; title: 7. The aesthetic construction of ethnic nationalism : war memorial museums in Korea and Japan / Hong Kal; title: 8. Difficult neighbors : Japan and North Korea / Gavan McCormack; title: 9. Dynamics of denial : responses to past atrocities in Germany, Turkey, and Japan / John Torpey; title: 10. Pop culture, public memory, and Korean-Japanese relations / Chiho Sawada; title: 11. A strong state, weak civil society and Cold War geopolitics : why Japan lags behind Europe in confronting a negative past / Andrew Horvat; title: 12. Economic integration and reconciliation in Northeast Asia : possibilities and limitations / Wonhyuk Lim.