The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan was written by Professor Chunghee Sarah Soh (소정희 蘇貞姫) of San Francisco State University.

In 1996, Soh published an essay titled "The Korean 'Comfort Women': Movement for Redress", which appeared in Asian Survey.

In her view, the burden is on Korean society to repudiate victimization, admit its complicity and accept that the comfort women system was not criminal.

Kingston observes that Soh is much more critical of liberal Korean redress activists than she is of conservative Japanese nationalist apologists who can use the book's arguments for their own purposes.

[7] Mark E. Caprio, a professor of history at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, wrote that Soh's book emphasizes the complexity of the comfort women issue.

Caprio criticizes Soh for opening the door to Japanese nationalists who make "irresponsible claims" to minimize the comfort women issue.

Totani observes that Soh's book examines four competing ideologies which are critical to the understanding of the modern comfort women issue.

Soh writes that South Korean nationalists have constructed a master narrative of the comfort women issue, one that is simplistic and homogenizing, showing Korea as the victim.

Soh's research reveals a much wider narrative, providing instead a holistic view of the issue, with more nuance and variation, especially factoring in the acceptance in Korea of institutionalized gender violence.