Rethinking Historical Injustice And Reconciliation In Northe

Table of Contents: Introduction 'Soon-Won Park, Daqing Yang, and Gi-Wook Shin 'Part 1: Coming to Terms with the Darker Past in Korea Section 1: The Counter-Narratives and Voices of World War II: An Update 1. The Korean 'Comfort Women' Tragedy as Structural Violence 'Chunghee Sarah Soh' 2. The Resignification of the 'Comfort Women' through NGO Trials 'Hideko Mitsui' 3. The Politics of Remembrance: The case of Korean Forced Laborers in World War II 'Soon-Won Park' Section 2: Democratization and Domestic Historical Injustice 4. The War against the 'Enemy Within': Hidden Massacres in the Early Stages of the Korean War 'Dong-Choon Kim' 5. Justice Incomplete: The Remedies for the Victims of Jeju April Third Incidents 'Tae Ung Baik' 6. From Seoul to Saigon: Gook Meets Charlie 'Kyung-Yoong Bay' Part 2: Toward a Northeast Asian Approach to Historical Injustice? Section 3: Korean Experience in Comparative Perspective 7. The Aesthetic Construction of Ethnic Nationalism: War Memorial Museums in Korea and Japan 'Hong Kal '8. Difficult Neighbors: Japan and North Korea 'Gavan McCormack' 9. Dynamics of Denial: Responses to Past Atrocities in Germany, Turkey, and Japan 'John Torpey' Section 4: Reconciliation and Regional Cooperation 10. A Strong State, Weak Civil Society and Cold War Geopolitics: Why Japan Lags behind Europe in Confronting a Negative Past 'Andrew Horvat' 11. Pop Culture, Public Memory and Korean-Japanese Relations 'Chiho Sawada' 12. Economic Integration and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia: Possibilities and Limitations 'Wonhyuk Lim' Epilogue: Lessons and Future 'Soon-Won Park, Daqing Yang, and Gi-Wook Shin' Author Biography: Stanford University, USA George Washington University, USA