سیاست عذرخواهی:زنان در چارچوب پیچیدگی‌های منطقه‌ای

نوع مقاله : مقاله علمی- پژوهشی مستقل

نویسندگان

1 دانشکده حقوق و علوم سیاسی ، دانشگاه تهران، تهران،ایران

2 دانشکده حقوق و علوم سیاسی، دانشگاه تهران،تهران،ایران

چکیده

دولت ژاپن در طول دوران استعمارگری خود سیستمی غیراخلاقی را تاسیس کرد که زنان در آن برای سوءاستفاده‌های جنسی به خدمت گرفته می‌شدند. در نتیجه آن، حدود ۲۰۰،۰۰۰ زن مورد آزار سربازان ژاپنی  قرار گرفتند. در تلاش برای حل مسئله بین قربانیان و متخلفان در طول جنگ جهانی دوم، راهکارهای عدالت‌خواهان‌های‌همچون‌ برگزاری نشست‌های مشترک حل و فصل، شکایت در دادگاه‌ها و جبران غرامت بدون حصول نتایج ملموسی‌پیشنهاد شده است. با این وجود، دولت ژاپن به رغم اذعان نظامیان خود به جنایات منتسب، حاضر به عذرخواهی رسمی همراه با تخصیص یک صندوق مالی دولتی  برای تاوان نشده است. پرسش پژوهشی این مقاله آن است که چرا دولت ژاپن حاضر به پوزش رسمی از این زنان و دولت‌های متبوع‌شان برای جنایات جنگی انجام داده نشده است. این مقاله سه عامل موثر اصلی در عدم عذرخواهی این کشور که عبارتند از ایدئولوژی دولتی، فرهنگ اجتماعی و عناصر سیاسی که ریشه‌ای عمیق در سیاست‌های منطقه‌ای در شرق آسیا دارند را بررسی می‌کند. همچنین، "سیاست‌های عذرخواهی"  ژاپن در مورد زنان مورد تعرض را در چارچوب منطقه‌ای شامل پیچیدگی‌های ساختاری، اجتماعی و ژئوپولیتیکی که قابل مصالحه نبوده‌اند را تحقیق و ارایه می‌نماید.

کلیدواژه‌ها

عنوان مقاله [English]

The Politics of Apology:Comfort Women within the context of regional complexities

نویسندگان [English]

  • Aejung Kim 1
  • Ibrahim Motaghi 2
1 Faculty of Political Science and Law, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
2 Faculty of Political Science and Law, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
چکیده [English]

 
The Japanese government established the well-organized comfort system served by women during the Japanese colonial period, in which about 200,000 women were both physically and mentally abused by Japanese soldiers. In a bid to solve the “Comfort Women” issue between the victims (comfort women) and offenders (the Japanese government) during World War II, several justice mechanisms such as trial, tribunal, reparation programs, and resolution have been applied with no fruitful results. In addition, the Japanese government has never given a formal apology accompanied by a descent compensation through the public fund, despite the acknowledgment of wrongdoing by Japanese officers. The research question of this paper is about what makes the Japanese government refuse to offer a formal apology to comfort women for war crimes committed during World War II.This paper investigates the three factors discouraging the politics of apology. Those factors include state-led ideology, cultural, and geopolitical elements, which are deeply rooted in the regional politics in East Asia. East Asian countries share similar requisites, which are conducive to the development of the regional politics. The paper shows the politics of apology in Japan’s “Comfort Women” case reinterpreted within the regional context of structural, social, and geopolitical complexities unsuitable to reconciliation.

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • Comfort women
  • politics of apology
  • geopolitics
  • East Asia
  • women rights

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