1999 年 35 巻 p. 37-46
In order to study peace education and human rights education from the view-point of adult education including education of elderly, the concept of 'militant nonviolence' (E.H. Erikson) is very important.
Psycho-historical aproach by Erikson clarifies the developmental process of the women drafted for military sexual slavery ('comfort women') by Japan who were victimized systematically and deprived of their youth during the 2nd World War. In old age, helped by supporting organizations, they reached to demand the reparation and compensation of Japan by expressing their cruelly hard experience. But their true objects are regaining their own horrors and dignities as human being. It means that they succeeded in acquiring the mentality of ‘miltant nonviolence’ which Erikson shows us in Gandhi's Truth And at the standpoint of supporting organizations younger generation can inherits ‘militant nonviolence’ from the victims of the war in the ‘generational cycle’. This is also meaningful to make clear the Japanese ‘habitus’ (P. Bordieu) which conceals and puts the taboo on aproaching the war crimes and responsibilities of Japan ultimately focusing Tennoh (Japanese emperor) System. This paper is one step to understand the Japanese ‘habitus’ based on the psycho-historical analysis of Korean and Chinese women drafted for military sexual slavery by Japan.