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Harvard professor ignites uproar over Korean 'comfort women' claims In this Feb. 25, 2021, photo, high school students hold up banners to protest a recent academic paper by Harvard University professor J. Mark Ramseyer, behind statues symbolizing wartime sex slaves in Seoul, South Korea. The signs read: 'J. Mark Ramseyer, are you a 21st century professor at Harvard? Are you a university professor in the Japanese Empire 100 years ago? We criticize anti-human rights research.' (Lee Jung-hoon/Yonhap via AP) In this March 1, 2017, file photo, former 'comfort woman' Lee Yong-soo, left, who was for...

Harvard professor ignites uproar over 'comfort women' claims Collin Binkley Tags:  Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2019, file photo, Lee Yong-soo, who was forced to serve for the Japanese troops as a sex slave during World War II, touches the face of a statue of a girl symbolizing the issue of wartime "comfort women" during its unveiling ceremony in Seoul, South Korea. Harvard University law professor J. Mark Ramseyer alleged in a December 2020 article, scheduled to appear in the March 2021 issue of the International Review of Law and Economi...

Academics reject J Mark Ramseyer’s claim women were not forced into sexual slavery during second world war

Cambridge (US), Mar 8: A Harvard University professor has ignited an international uproar and faces mounting scrutiny for alleging that Korean women who

A Harvard University professor has ignited an international uproar and faces mounting scrutiny for saying that Korean women who were kept as sex slaves in Japan during World War II had actually chosen to work as prostitutes. In an academic paper, J. Mark Ramseyer rejected a wide body of research finding that Japan’s so-called “comfort women” were forced to work at military brothels. Ramseyer instead argued that the women willingly entered into contracts as sex workers. His paper has intensified a political dispute between Japan, whose leaders deny that the women were coerced, and South K...