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Harvard professor accuses Korean scholar of savage attacks on his criticized comfort women paper
Posted : 2021-05-06 11:00
J. Mark Ramseyer / captured by Yonhap from Harvard Law School YouTube account
A Harvard law school professor, criticized for his disputed article casting victims of Japan s wartime sexual slavery as prostitutes, has accused a Korean scholar of savage attacks on him, warning that he will mull counteraction.
Lee Jinhee, an associate professor of history at Eastern Illinois University, told Yonhap News Agency that J. Mark Ramseyer of the Harvard Law School, had sent an email with the warning.
Lee has been at the vanguard of the efforts to redress the apparent distortion of history in Ramseyer s paper, titled Contracting for sex in the Pacific War, in which those forced into sexual servitude by Japan during World War II were depicted as willing prostitutes.
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Harvard Law professor of Japanese Legal Studies J. Mark Ramseyer reportedly sent a thank you message to a supporter this week whose email denigrated Koreansâ ânational characterâ and called Ramseyer Japanâs âonly hope.â
Ramseyer is already under fire in Korea for a paper that claims â against the historical consensus â that sex slaves under the Imperial Japanese military, known as âcomfort women,â were voluntarily employed.
âComfort womenâ is a term used to refer to women and girls from Imperial Japanâs occupied territories â many of whom were of Korean origin â that were sexually enslaved by the Japanese military before and during World War II. Ramseyer drew international backlash last month with his article, âContracting for sex in the Pacific War,â that claimed that those women were gainfully contracted to Japanese brothels.
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