The Bellefontaine Board of Education praised a class that's helping hundreds of residents across our community during their Monday evening meeting, Feb. 12. B
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.