Whose Suffering Counts? A Comparative Study of the Social and Political Survivors Mobilization of Korean Comfort Women, Korean and Japanese Atomic Bomb

• In Event: Memory Politics, Human Rights, and Moral Legitimacy in East Asia

Brief Overview

This study compares why Korean comfort women and Japanese Atomic bomb survivors gained recognition while Korean atomic-bomb survivors remained invisible, revealing how politics, framing, and geopolitics shape whose suffering counts in public memory.

Author

• Danbi Lee, University of Delaware