Grimberg, Shontelle

Women without a Voice : Japan's Silencing of Its Comfort Women and the Redemptive Future the Tokyo Women's Tribunal Offers to the Gendered and Colonial History of International Law

For decades, international legal actors have failed to bring justice to the victims of the “comfort women” system implemented by Japan during the Second World War, highlighting the gendered discrimination of the international legal framework towards non-western women. The author recounts the history of conflict-based sexual violence in Japan and the inadequacy of international response.

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