Incomplete Stories: Experiences and Memories of Japanese Imperial Armys Comfort Women

Abstract

(In lieu of an abstract) Somewhere in their mind, everyone has memories that they wish they did not, because of pain, because of shame, because of pent-up anger, or for any other number of unpleasant reasons. Stored in some personal private corner of our minds, we want to deny the very existence of these memories. However, these private memories, though perhaps not created through ones own volition but at the hands of someone else or through an unforeseen circumstance, can be excavated and evoked, and subsequently reconstructed as social memories.