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Law Prof. Ramseyer Thanks Supporter Who Disparaged Korean People, According to Email Exchange Posted Online | News


Harvard Law professor of Japanese Legal Studies J. Mark Ramseyer reportedly sent a thank you message to a supporter this week whose email denigrated Koreans’ “national character” and called Ramseyer Japan’s “only hope.”
Ramseyer is already under fire in Korea for a paper that claims — against the historical consensus — that sex slaves under the Imperial Japanese military, known as “comfort women,” were voluntarily employed.
“Comfort women” is a term used to refer to women and girls from Imperial Japan’s occupied territories — many of whom were of Korean origin — that were sexually enslaved by the Japanese military before and during World War II. Ramseyer drew international backlash last month with his article, “Contracting for sex in the Pacific War,” that claimed that those women were gainfully contracted to Japanese brothels. ....

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