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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, at the time, was a colony of Japan. Estimates of the number of victims have ranged widely, from te...

February 18, 2021 12:00 A professor at Harvard University Law School has stirred up a hornet's 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 government's own claims, namely that the Imperial Army did not force women into sexual slavery in World War II but they volunteered to become prostitutes. Mark Ramseyer Ramseyer's paper considers the pr...