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National Consensus on Postwar Responsibility and Individual Compensation: Comparison of the Asian Women's Fund and the German Foundation, "Memory, Responsibility, and Future"

Research Project

Project/Area Number 25380210
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field International relations
Research InstitutionInternational University of Japan

Principal Investigator

Kumagai Naoko  国際大学, 国際関係学研究科, 准教授 (10598668)

Project Period (FY) 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Keywords日本 / ドイツ / 慰安婦 / アジア女性基金 / 「記憶・責任・未来」財団 / 戦後責任 / 道義的償い / 「慰安婦」問題 / 戦後補償 / 「記憶・責任・未来」基金 / 道義的補償 / 戦争責任
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research analyzed the contrasting results of the moral atonement by the Asian Women’s Fund for former comfort women and that by the German Foundation, “Memory, Responsibility, and Future,” for former Eastern European forced workers. The latter received better operational and financial support from relevant governments and businesses than the former.
The alleged higher level of postwar responsibility in Germany has followed the government’s rather pragmatic compensation policies and it had been shaken by the revisionist debates. The moral atonement for former comfort women was unprecedented and lacked pragmatic benefits for the Japanese government. Besides, the patriarchal nature of the issue of comfort women brought dishonor to both the victims and the offenders, leading both to oppose the moral atonement. The research concludes that effective moral atonement depends on the nature of the issue and political and economic elements as well as the level of postwar responsibility.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2015 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • 2013 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (17 results)

All 2015 2014 2013

All Journal Article (4 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 2 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 1 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (12 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 3 results,  Invited: 3 results) Book (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] The Intertwined Meanings of Guilt and Responsibility in the Issue of Comfort Women---in pursuit of true reconciliation between Japan and Korea.” (to be translated into and published in German)2015

    • Author(s)
      Naoko Kumagai
    • Journal Title

      polylog: zeitschrift fur interkulturelles Philosophieren

      Volume: 34 Pages: 67-82

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] The Absence of Consensus in Japan over the Issue of Comfort Women--With the Case of the Asian Women’s Fund from the Approach of Ontological Security2015

    • Author(s)
      Naoko Kumagai
    • Journal Title

      Social Science Japan Journal

      Volume: Summer Issue: 2 Pages: 1-17

    • DOI

      10.1093/ssjj/jyv009

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report 2014 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] 「慰安婦」呼称問題の道義的法的検討2015

    • Author(s)
      熊谷奈緒子
    • Journal Title

      地域文化学会

      Volume: March Pages: 154-180

    • NAID

      40020439827

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Asian Women’s Fund Revisited2014

    • Author(s)
      Naoko Kumagai
    • Journal Title

      Asia-Pacific Review

      Volume: Vol.2, Issue 2 Issue: 2 Pages: 117-148

    • DOI

      10.1080/13439006.2014.978986

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Presentation] The Intertwined Meanings of Guilt and Responsibility in the Issue of Comfort Women---in pursuit of true reconciliation between Japan and Korea2015

    • Author(s)
      Naoko Kumagai
    • Organizer
      World Congress for Korean Politics and Society
    • Place of Presentation
      Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
    • Year and Date
      2015-08-26
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The Intertwined Meanings of Guilt and Responsibility in the Issue of Comfort Women---in pursuit of true reconciliation between Japan and Korea.”2015

    • Author(s)
      熊谷奈緒子
    • Organizer
      the World Congress for Korean Politics and Society 2015. (August 25-27, 2015, at Hotel Hyundai, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea.)
    • Place of Presentation
      キョンジュ 韓国
    • Year and Date
      2015-08-25 – 2015-08-27
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] The Possibilities and Limitations of the influence of transnational cooperation on Korean unification: The Issue of Comfort Women2015

    • Author(s)
      Naoko Kumagai
    • Organizer
      International Academic Conference on Korean Unification
    • Place of Presentation
      Seoul, Republic of Korea
    • Year and Date
      2015-07-08
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Absence of Guilt in Japan’s Reconciliation with Former Korean Comfort Women2015

    • Author(s)
      Naoko Kumagai
    • Organizer
      the 5th Intercultural Interdisciplinary Colloquium of Polylog: Forum for Intercultural Philosophy e.V.
    • Place of Presentation
      the Institute for Science and Art in Vienna, Austria
    • Year and Date
      2015-05-22
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] “Absence of Guilt in Japan’s Reconciliation with Former Korean Comfort Women.”2015

    • Author(s)
      熊谷奈緒子
    • Organizer
      the 5th Intercultural Interdisciplinary Colloquium of Polylog: Forum for Intercultural Philosophy e.V. (May 20-22, 2015, the Institute for Science and Art in Vienna, Austria.)
    • Place of Presentation
      ウィーン、オーストリア
    • Year and Date
      2015-05-22
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 「慰安婦」問題の概説2015

    • Author(s)
      熊谷奈緒子
    • Organizer
      平和構築学会
    • Place of Presentation
      法政大学市ヶ谷キャンパス
    • Year and Date
      2015-01-31
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Reconciliation and Human Rights2015

    • Author(s)
      熊谷奈緒子
    • Organizer
      国際大学と明治大学との共同研究発表
    • Place of Presentation
      明治大学御茶ノ水キャンパス
    • Year and Date
      2015-01-16
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 慰安婦問題 土野瑞穂氏の博士論文へのコメント2014

    • Author(s)
      熊谷奈緒子
    • Organizer
      現代韓国研究所特別セミナー
    • Place of Presentation
      東京大学駒場キャンパス
    • Year and Date
      2014-12-10
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 慰安婦問題をめぐる議論のあり方についてーー和解を目指して2014

    • Author(s)
      熊谷奈緒子
    • Organizer
      国際大学公開セミナー
    • Place of Presentation
      国際大学
    • Year and Date
      2014-09-19
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 「アジア女性基金」をとりまく議論: 存在的安心論に基づく分析と「慰安婦」問題解決への今後の展望2014

    • Author(s)
      熊谷奈緒子
    • Organizer
      地域文化学会
    • Place of Presentation
      東京海洋大学
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] `Irreconcilable Cleavage over the Asia Women’s Fund: Domestic Discourse over the True Identity of Japan in War Responsibility`2013

    • Author(s)
      熊谷奈緒子
    • Organizer
      University of Hong Kong, International Workshop, `China, World War II, and the Politics of Memory`
    • Place of Presentation
      香港
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] アジア女性基金による個人補償プロジェクトにおける超国家的法的プロセス(Transnational Legal Processの批判的解明2013

    • Author(s)
      熊谷奈緒子
    • Organizer
      日本国際政治学会
    • Place of Presentation
      新潟
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 慰安婦問題2014

    • Author(s)
      熊谷奈緒子
    • Total Pages
      238
    • Publisher
      ちくま新書
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report

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Published: 2014-07-25   Modified: 2019-07-29  

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