The Modern Emperor Ideology and the Historical Particularity of the Korean Comfort Women Policy

This study examined the specificity of the Korean "comfort women" policy, which is organically linked to the modern Japanese emperor ideology. It also historically examines the actual damage caused by human rights violations, including the forced mobilization of Korean "comfort women." To examine the characteristics of the modern emperor's ideology and the strategies and policies that Japan implemented to rule Korea through the Korean Governorate, we analyzed primary sources such as documents, decrees, and notices from the Japanese military and administration, including from the governor general of Korea, considering the organic connection between the Korean "comfort women" policy and the modern emperor ideology.BR The analysis revealed that the Korean "comfort women" policy was a coercive state policy, the formulation and implementation of which involved the Japanese military, the Korean governorate, and the executive branch, and that the Japanese forcibly mobilized Korean women at the bottom of the social hierarchy as instruments of sexual exploitation. The issue of Korean "comfort women" is related to the historical facts of Japanese supremacism, contempt for other peoples, discrimination and exclusion, instrumentalization of human beings, and brutal human rights abuses, including forced labor, which are inherent in the modern emperor ideology.