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Negationist Denialism In The "Comfort Women" Issue In Japan, Tetsushi Ogata
Negationist Denialism In The "Comfort Women" Issue In Japan, Tetsushi Ogata
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
This article deals with the pervasive and entrenched nature of Japanese denialism on wartime memories, mainly focusing on the “comfort women” issue. It argues that a lens of “negationism” is more beneficial to address entrenched denialism. The net effect of denialism has been to perpetuate binary identity constructs, the deniers and the denied, one side re-engineering social relations to dominate and continue dominating the other. Conventional approaches to counter such denialism have relied heavily on truth-seeking and justice-dispensing mechanisms, but they are inept at addressing negationist denialism. The article explores a post-atrocity model of narrative and identity to go beyond …