페미니스트 정의론의 관점에서 본 일본군 성노예제 문제의 의미와 과제

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This article focuses on the fact that while the controversy over the Japanese military "comfort women" is still under way and the victims are passing away, there is still serious disagreement and distortion of the situation. It is therefore important to ask what tasks remain for sympathizers and advocates of the victims, when the Abe administration in Japan denies the past and avoids legal responsibility by arguing for ‘moral responsibility,’ as it waits for the relevant parties to die out. How are we to transcend the dichotomy of traditional legal/moral responsibility while upholding the spirit of the victims and emphasizing our own responsibilities? This paper aims to address these difficulties through a critical examination of Iris Young’s justice theory. First, the meaning of Young’s ‘political responsibility’ is explored and the issue of sexual slavery in Japan is investigated through a connection model of responsibility. However, since the domain of political responsibility has been enlarged in the absence of legal criminal action, an alternative stratigraphic model of political responsibility linked to legal-moral responsibility is suggested.

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