https://www.scmp.com/rss/323875/feed Peipei Qiu is Louise Boyd Dale and Alfred Lichtenstein Chair Professor of Chinese and Japanese and Chair of the Department of Chinese and Japanese at Vassar College. She is the author of Bashô and the Dao: The Zhuangzi and the Transformation of Haikai (University of Hawai’i Press, 2005) and Chinese Comfort Women: Testimonies from Imperial Japan’s Sex Slaves (University of British Columbia Press, 2013; Oxford University Press, 2014; Hong Kong University Press, 2014). en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Last week the diplomatic row between South Korea and Japan escalated when a statue commemorating “comfort women” – sex slaves forced by Japan to work in military brothels during the second world war – was installed outside the Japanese consulate in Busan. Japan responded by recalling its ambassador to Seoul and consul general to Busan, and suspending discussions on a bilateral currency swap agreement with South Korea. The diplomatic crisis is not simply a reopened historical rift between two... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2061990/why-koreas-comfort-women-must-be-remembered?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2061990/why-koreas-comfort-women-must-be-remembered?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 16 Jan 2017 03:00:30 +0000