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並列タイトル等What is “Moral Responsibility”? : The Japan-South Korea “Comfort Women” Agreement and the Statue of Peace
一般注記The purpose of this paper is to analyze critically the changing attitude of the Japanese government on the issue of “comfort women”, from a feminist ethical perspective. Applying feminist ethics to the issue of “comfort women,” especially Margaret Walker’s idea of morality based on an expressive-cooperative model, the paper argues that the Japanese government has betrayed its own admission in the 1994 report on the “comfort women” issue, that “Japan must, from a moral standpoint, take the opportunity offered by the 50th anniversary of the end of the war to fulfill its responsibility for the wartime comfort women issue.” To this end, the paper is divided into three sections. In the first section, I articulate the significance of the controversial “Peace Statue”, which is also known as the “Peace Girl Statue” as it is preferably called by the Korean Council of Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, an NGO which created the statue. The question that needs to be asked is why have both the Japanese government and the Japanese media erased “peace” from its original name and referred to it as only “a statue of a girl”, or “a statue of a comfort woman”? Secondly, I explore what kind of responsive actions should be taken if the Japanese government were faithful to what Walker understands as moral responsibility. I emphasize the significance of the promise of “peace” which was expressed in the statue. In the final section, I criticize the agreement on the“ comfort women” issue between South Korea and Japan, especially the phrase “final and irreversible solution.” From the viewpoint of moral responsibility, the reparations must involve not only repairing the wrongs and injustices of the past but also ensuring justice in the future relations between those who have done the injustice and its victims. I conclude that the citizens’ movements building replicas of the statue across the world to commemorate the comfort women issue is a way of taking moral responsibility for the issue as a member of an international world. By criticizing their actions and movements the Japanese government betrays its own promise of resolving the issue.
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）