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The International Review of Law and Economics (IRLE) finally published a controversial article by J. Mark Ramseyer after his research received accusations of foreign influence, revisionist history, and questionable sources. Ramseyer is the Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies at Harvard University and a recipient of Japan’s Order of the Rising Sun, according to his faculty biography. His article, “Contracting for sex in the Pacific War,” argued that the “comfort women” of Korea entered prostitution largely by choice rather than coercion from Imperial Japan.
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Dudden: Law Professor Promotes Denialism on WW II Military Sexual Slavery
A still-contentious subject in Japan and Korea has become the focus of global attention
South Korean protesters stand beside a statue of a teenage girl symbolizing comfort women, who were sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II, near the Japanese embassy in Seoul on March 1, 2021, the 102nd anniversary of the Independence Movement Day against the 1910-1945 Japanese colonial rule. (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images) Copy Link
A Harvard law professor recently sparked an international controversy by describing the documented history of state-sponsored sexual slavery during World War II by the imperial Japanese military as “pure fiction” in an op-ed in the Japan Forward newspaper and in the academic journal International Review of Law and Economics.