Report: Japanese scholars raise objections to comfort women paper
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Japanese academics have signed a petition showing strong concern about a paper authored by a Harvard Law School professor on “comfort women,” according to a South Korean press report. File Photo by Keizo Mori/UPI | License Photo
March 10 (UPI) Japanese historians and scholars condemned a Harvard Law professor s controversial paper on comfort women, as protests grow in South Korea and the United States.
Ryuta Itagaki, a professor of sociology at Doshisha University, told South Korean network KBS that the paper by J. Mark Ramseyer, the Mitsubishi professor of Japanese legal studies at Harvard Law School, is an example of denial regarding the abuse of women and girls forced to serve in wartime brothels.
A Harvard professor argued that Korean women forced into sex slavery in WWII did so voluntarily. Now he’s facing a backlash
A Harvard professor has sparked international backlash after publishing an academic article arguing that Korean comfort women sent against their will to imperial Japan to have sex with soldiers were not actually forced into their prostitution but that they actually chose their positions.
J. Mark Ramseyer, a Harvard Law School professor specializing in Japanese legal studies, published his article in the peer-reviewed International Review of Law and Economics in December, scheduled to publish in print this month.
In his article, “Contracting for sex in the Pacific War,” Ramseyer argues: “The protracted political dispute between South Korea and Japan over the wartime brothels called ‘comfort stations’ obscures the contractual dynamics involved.” He goes on to illustrate ways that the women of Korea, then under rule by Japan, were actually give
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Dozens of demonstrators gathered outside Johnston Gate Saturday afternoon in a protest organized by the Korean American Society of Massachusetts against Harvard Law professor J. Mark Ramseyer, calling for him to apologize for his recent controversial paper on âcomfort womenâ and for the publishing journal to retract the article.
Ramseyerâs paper âContracting for sex in the Pacific War,â which will be published in the International Review of Law and Economics, stoked international controversy last month by claiming that sex slaves under the Imperial Japanese military, known as âcomfort women,â were voluntarily employed. Many of the comfort women were from Korea, and Ramseyer has faced significant backlash in South Korea since the paper was widely publicized in late January.
J. Mark Ramseyer has ignited international uproar for a paper claiming that Koreans who were kept as sex slaves in wartime Japan, many of them teenagers, had willingly chosen to work as prostitutes.