[국제]Ramsayer,’comfort women’s demeanor’ distorts the massacre of Koreans in Kanto

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It turns out that Harvard professor Mark Ramseyer, who is controversial by writing a thesis that defined the victims of comfort women as prostitutes, wrote a distorted thesis that also distorted the massacre of Koreans during the Great Kanto Earthquake.

Koreans in Japan were described as criminal groups, and the number of Koreans slaughtered was inflated, arguing that the use of private police force was justified at the time.

Reporter Yeojin Lee reports.

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This is Professor Ramsey’s thesis’Vigilante: Japanese Police, Korean Massacre and Private Security Company’ published in 2019.

It is admitted that it is true that Japanese vigilantes killed Koreans in Japan after the earthquake, which killed 100,000 people.

But what matters is not whether they were slaughtered, but how many Koreans committed crimes, and how many Koreans actually killed by the vigilantes.

Koreans in Japan were described as criminal groups.

In 1923, out of 100,000 Japanese men, 191 committed crimes, and out of 100,000 Koreans in Japan, 542 men and women committed crimes.

A fire in the Kanto region is sometimes described as a Korean act based on a report by the Government-General of Korea that it is not unfounded rumors that Koreans set fire and poisoned a well after the earthquake.

Furthermore, they argued that the number of Korean arson incidents after the earthquake concluded by the Japanese Ministry of Justice was reduced, and that the number of Koreans slaughtered by Japanese was exaggerated.

Overall, there is a strong message that the Japanese government at the time was not responsible for the massacre of Koreans, and that the use of private police force in abnormal circumstances was justified.

Previously, the Japanese military comfort women issue as well as other historical issues are in an atmosphere that accepts the arguments of disgusting people.

Meanwhile, the President of Harvard University is raising another wave of waves by revealing that Ramsayer’s dissertation on comfort women is included in academic freedom.

[박기태 / 반크 단장 : 가해자로서의 일본을 숨기고 피해자로 코스프레 하는 건데 일본 우익의 정신 구조인데 이런 걸 그대로 복제해서 유명한 대학교에서 논문을 쓴다는 자체가 끔찍한 일인 것 같습니다.]

But the problem is that it doesn’t seem to stop there.

This is because Professor Ramsey has been studying in Japan for a long period of time and has the official title of being sponsored by Mitsubishi Corporation, so it is highly likely that he has published a dissertation containing other historical distortions and disregards.

This is YTN Lee Yeo-jin.

[저작권자(c) YTN & YTN plus 무단전재 및 재배포 금지]