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A Harvard University professor has ignited an international uproar and faces mounting scrutiny for alleging that Korean women who were kept as sex slaves in wartime Japan had actually chosen to work as prostitutes. In a recent academic paper, J. Mark Ramseyer rejected a wide body of research finding that Japan’s so-called “comfort women” were…

Harvard University professor J. Mark Ramseyer rejected research finding that Japan’s “comfort women” were forced to work at brothels in World War II.

An American professor is facing criticism after suggesting Korean women kept as sex slaves in wartime Japan willingly took part in sex work.

Harvard professor ignites uproar over 'comfort women' claims

North Korea slams Harvard Law professor for comfort women article By (0) North Korea addressed the issue of a controversial "comfort women" article on Monday, weeks after Harvard Law professor J. Mark Ramseyer came under criticism for his characterization of former victims of wartime brothels. File Photo by Keizo Mori/UPI | License Photo March 2 (UPI) -- North Korea condemned a Harvard Law professor and his article on "comfort women" in a television documentary that addressed Japans wartime c...

Harvard and former sex slaves

In January, I was outlining an article I hoped to write about a recent judgment by a South Korean court ordering Japan to pay compensation for atrocities committed during the Second World War against “comfort women,” women and girls who were transported to war-front “comfort stations” to provide sexual services to soldiers in the Imperial Japanese Army. The women were taken by force or entrapped by deception in many countries in and beyond Asia, but a large number came from Korea, which...

February 18, 2021 12:00 A professor at Harvard University Law School has stirred up a hornets nest by describing women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial Army as "sex workers." The International Review of Law and Economics recently posted online an abstract of a paper by Mark Ramseyer titled "Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War." The gist is much the same as the Japanese governments own claims, namely that the Imperial Army did not force women into sexual slavery in World ...