Dudden: Law Professor Promotes Denialism on WW II Military Sexual Slavery
A still-contentious subject in Japan and Korea has become the focus of global attention
South Korean protesters stand beside a statue of a teenage girl symbolizing comfort women, who were sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II, near the Japanese embassy in Seoul on March 1, 2021, the 102nd anniversary of the Independence Movement Day against the 1910-1945 Japanese colonial rule. (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images) Copy Link
A Harvard law professor recently sparked an international controversy by describing the documented history of state-sponsored sexual slavery during World War II by the imperial Japanese military as “pure fiction” in an op-ed in the Japan Forward newspaper and in the academic journal International Review of Law and Economics.
哈佛教授称 慰安妇 是 自愿 ！披上 学术研究 的外皮就可以歪曲历史吗？|哈佛大学
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哈佛教授称 慰安妇是自愿卖淫 ，3万人请愿要求道歉
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Harvard Law School professor of Japanese Legal Studies J. Mark Ramseyer has faced an outpouring of public criticism from government officials worldwide against his upcoming paper, which claims that sex slaves, known as âcomfort women,â under the Imperial Japanese military were voluntary employed.
Ramseyerâs paper stoked international controversy by disputing the historical consensus that âcomfort womenâ â a euphemism commonly used to refer to women and girls used as sex slaves by the Imperial Japanese military before and during World War II â were compelled into sex work against their will.
Unlike many scholastic disputes, which do not stretch far outside academia, Ramseyerâs article has drawn strong responses from high-ranking government officials of several countries, including the United States, China, South Korea, Japan, and even North Korea.