Abstract This article outlines the history of the “comfort woman” statue from its emergence in Seoul to its incarnations in the United States up to the present moment. Its aim is to explore the debates regarding its installations and to account for shifting discursive fields with its changing localities from South Korea to the United States. Particular attention is paid to the controversies concerning “comfort woman” statues erected in Glendale, California; Southfield, Michigan; Brookhaven, Georgia; and San Francisco, California. In all cases, the cities encountered enormous pressures from the Japanese government, ultra-right-wing politicians and citizen groups. Resistance on the part of the Japanese government suggests ongoing efforts to systematically deny the wartime atrocities performed on women by its imperial predecessor and to silence the victim-survivors. The installations of the ‘comfort woman’ statues in the United States offer an opportunity for Asian diasporic communities with entangled World War II histories to resist such silencing and weave their own interstitial narratives.

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建立“慰安妇”纪念碑：从首尔到旧金山

摘要 本文概述了“慰安妇”雕像从首尔出现到在美国化身至今的历史。它的目的是探索关于其装置的辩论，并解释随着地区从韩国到美国的变化而转移的话语领域。特别关注关于在加利福尼亚州格伦代尔竖立的“慰安妇”雕像的争议；密歇根州绍斯菲尔德；乔治亚州布鲁克海文；和加利福尼亚州旧金山。在所有情况下，这些城市都面临着来自日本政府、极右翼政客和公民团体的巨大压力。日本政府方面的抵制表明，日本政府正在努力系统地否认其帝国前任对妇女实施的战时暴行，并使受害者和幸存者保持沉默。美国“慰安妇”雕像的安装为二战历史纠缠不清的亚洲侨民社区提供了一个机会，以抵制这种沉默并编织自己的间隙叙事。