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The primary object of this study is to investigate the politics of memory of Japanese military ‘comfort women’ problems at Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace, known as the WAM. For the purpose of this object, this study focuses the exhibition and signification of the ‘comfort women’ at the WAM from the perspective of transnational feminism. The results are as follows. First, the pictures of the women victims of the Japanese military sexual violence(155 women all over Asia during World War II) welcome people who visit the WAM. This exhibition of survivor’s portraits is to free from Korean comfort women. Second, The regular exhibition of the “Comfort Stations” all over Asia is to free from Korean comfort women. Third, the WAM exhibits former soldiers testifying about their crimes in China, Burma, The Philippines, East Timor etc. This exhibition has the effect of showing another face of Japan. Therefore the WAM focuses on the issue of ‘military comfort women,’ those forced to offer sexual service to Japanese soldiers during the Asia–Pacific War. The WAM has been leading political activism against right‐wing nationalists who deny the history of military sexual slavery. But the WAM brings Korean feminist nationalism who tried to clarify the nature of ‘victimihood’ in the context of colonialism political défferance to remember the war and comfort women.