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This study discussed the representation of ‘Karayuki-san,’ which led to ‘Japanese comfort women,’ focusing on the period from the early modern times before the Sino-Japanese War. In early modern times, Karayuki-san was represented as ‘ladies of pleasure,’ the disgrace of the country as Christianity and sexual morality were introduced from the west, which had been represented as ‘filial daughters’; however, as its necessity was raised, it formed the central axis supporting Japan’s Imperialist policy. To investigate ‘Prostitute’ Okiyo, who was degraded to a sexual tool, Okiyo internalized herself as a heterogeneous, alienated being who denied her own identity as she was excluded from Japanese people and Japanese women. As examined in this study, it is clear that Japan’s registered prostitution system was human trafficking and sex slavery. Japan has recognized the fact that the registered prostitution and prostitution is a crime since the early modern times. Therefore, it is judged that the scheme that ‘comfort women = prostitutes’ and ‘comfort women = registered prostitutes’ were sex slaves and sex criminals, as insisted by the Japanese right wing and the logic that it was an Asian culture of ‘filial piety,’ in which they were voluntary prostitutes for supporting their families, are just poor excuses for refusing to apologize.

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本論文は｢からゆきさん｣から｢日本人慰安婦｣へと続く表象について考察したものである。 近代初期、西洋のキリスト教と性道徳が日本に流入していく過程で、からゆきさんの表象は｢孝女｣から｢醜業婦｣へ、そして国辱へと変化した。そしてその必要性が提起されながら、日本の帝国主義を支える一助となっていた。 性的道具へと転落した｢売春婦｣お清の表象を分析すると、お清は日本人、日本女性から排除され、自己アイデンティティを否定し、異質で疎外された存在として自分を内面化していることが窺える。 本論文で考察したように、日本の公娼制度は明らかに人身売買であり、性奴隷システムである。日本は公娼や売春が犯罪であることを近代初期から認識していた。したがって、｢慰安婦＝売春婦｣｢慰安婦＝公娼｣は性奴隷、性犯罪であり、慰安婦をアジアの｢孝｣文化と見なし、家族扶養のための自発的売春婦であったという日本の右派論理は謝罪を拒否する弁明にすぎない。