タイトルよみナゼ 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
並列タイトル等Towards a New Understanding of Sexual Violence : Examining the Public Bashing of “Comfort Women” in Contemporary Japan
一般注記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.
連携機関・データベース国立情報学研究所 : 学術機関リポジトリデータベース（IRDB）（機関リポジトリ）