November 28th, 2025

Today was a very short discussion period for my women’s history class. To be honest this post is somewhat skippable as it is very short and not much was said, but the section about the treatment of the female victims of the Japanese Imperial Army is very interesting.

First we talked about the documentary The Apology which was a tough watch. I balled my eyes out several times. In the movie it is rated that there was no historical record of the “comfort” women in the victim countries. Why don’t the Chinese and Korean governments and textbooks talk about it? Students answered that it may be because China and Korea want to maintain diplomatic relations, another answer was that these governments felt shame due to the fact that at the time they knew about how women and girls were being abused yet they did nothing.

Next we looked at the Liminality source. Nothing new was said here that went beyond the lecture I already wrote a post about so I will not write more.

The assignment for today was to paraphrase the author’s argument regarding Okinawans in Taiwan. This is where I wrote about how Okinawa was colonized and there may be a parallel to the occupied Taiwan experience. This is also where my professor hesitated to call what happened to Ryukyu as colonization, but she said I could make that argument anyway. So I did.