Abstract

This chapter explores the political implication of a care analysis, which has been developed from feminist ethics of care. By taking the issue of “comfort women” of the Japanese troop under the Second World War as an example, the chapter argues how a care analysis assesses caring process with the core ideas of care ethics, including the vulnerability of human beings, social responsibility, the importance of caring relationship and the deconstruction of the public and the private. The chapter articulates that the ethics of care is a normative theory that suggests us an alternative way of building a more democratic world.