Statement by Arlene Cohen, Associate Professor of Library Science at the University of Guam (Retired), Bruce Fulton, Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation, University of British Columbia and co-translator of One Left, a translated first novel on comfort women in Korean, Ju-Chan Fulton, Co-translator of One Left, Nicola Henry, Associate Professor and Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow, Social and Global Studies Centre, RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia) and author of War and Rape: Law, Memory and Justice, Jinah Kim, Associate Professor, California State University, Northridge and author, Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas, Miho Kim, Contract Researcher, Kwansei Gakuin University and Lecturer, San Francisco State University, Phyllis Kim, Activist, Executive Director, Comfort Women Action for Redress and Education (CARE), Ross King, Professor of Korean and Director, Centre for Korean Research, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, Eunah Lee, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, St. Joseph’s College, New York, Jungsil Lee, Chair, Washington Coalition for Comfort Women Issues, Inc. (WCCW), and co-editor with Dennis Halpin, Comfort Women, A Movement. . . , Bonnie B.C. Oh, Distinguished Professor of Korean Studies (Retired), Georgetown University and co-editor with Margaret D. Stetz, Legacies of Comfort Women of WWII, Lucy Paik, MD, FAAP, Pediatric Practice at Chicago, Chair of the Comfort Women Statue Erecting Committee, Peipei Qiu, co-author with Su Zhiliang and Chen Lifei, Chinese Comfort Women, Elizabeth W. Son, Associate Professor of Theater, Northwestern University and author, Embodied Reckonings: “Comfort Women,” Performance, and Transpacific Redress, Margaret D. Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities, University of Delaware and co-editor, Legacies of Comfort Women of WWII, and Ji-Yeon Yuh, Associate Professor and founder of Asian American Studies, Northwestern University and author of Beyond the Shadow of Camptown. February 2021.
