SEOUL, South Korea â A paper by Harvard Law School Japanese legal studies professor J. Mark Ramseyer that claims sex slaves taken by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II were actually recruited, contracted sex workers generated international controversy, academic criticism, and student petitions at Harvard this week.
The paper, âContracting for Sex in the Pacific War,â made headlines across South Korean media and was met with widespread public anger. Ramseyerâs work is set to be published in the March issue of the International Review of Law and Economics. Korean outlets picked up the news after Ramseyerâs paper was featured in a Jan. 28 press release in Sankei Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper.