Input 2021.02.17 14:20
On the 16th (local time), an online seminar hosted by Harvard University’s Asia Pacific Law School Student Association (APALSA) attended an online seminar hosted by Japanese military comfort women victim Lee Yong-soo (93) remotely.
Former Congressman Mike Honda, famous for his “comfort women’s keeper,” also attended the seminar. “Our job is to cut off funding for that faculty and make sure Harvard doesn’t get more money from Mitsubishi,” he said. This remark was aimed at the fact that Professor Ramsey was appointed as a seat professor sponsored by the Japanese war criminal company Mitsubishi.
“100% agree,” said Lilian Singh, co-chair of the CWJC, a former judge of the San Francisco High Court, and said that people such as Ramsay “are acting as spokespersons for Japan.”
“They are biased and working for Japan’s (historical) revisionist government,” Singh criticized. “They are helping to rewrite and launder history after the Japanese eradicated history.” He added, “You cannot deny history.”
He also criticized Ramsay for not contacting victims of the comfort women relationship while studying the comfort women issue. He said, “I hope that Ramsayer brazenly writes about the comfort women issue and never talks to, interviews or hears a victim,” he said. “I hope Ramsay will watch today’s event and feel and understand the pain of her grandmothers.” said.
At the seminar that day, Professor Ramsey’s argument raised the question that the comfort women issue lacked a basic view of war crimes against women.
“Most misunderstand the comfort women issue as a Korea-Japan issue,” Singh said. “It’s a problem in which all countries invaded by Japan are involved. We need to see this issue as a history of human rights, women’s citizenship, and resistance.” Explained.
In particular, to Professor Ramsey, who understood comfort women as a voluntary contract between prostitutes and prostitutes, he said, “Do not stipulate this issue from the point of view of the contract issue.” “Women’s rights, human rights, disputes between countries, and the exploitation of women in wartime It should be broadly defined as a problem,” he advised.
Former lawmaker Honda also defined the comfort women issue as “not an issue between Korea and Japan, but about women and human trafficking.”
Participants also sent a vigilant gaze toward the Japanese government, which supports Professor Ramsey under water.
In fact, former Congressman Honda recalled the time when he led the passage of a resolution related to comfort women in 2007 and introduced, “In the past, when the Republican Party led the House Foreign Relations Committee, it was difficult because of the influence of the Japanese government.” Then he criticized the Japanese side, saying, “They are lying.” Honda’s former lawmaker pointed to those who repeated the false claims of Japan, “they are no different from the Trump supporters who participated in the intrusion of the Capitol on January 6th.”
CWJC co-chair, Julie Tang, a former judge, like Singh, said, “Japanese lobbying is very, very strong. It has millions of dollars and includes government and non-governmental organizations.”
“It was a very, very bad agreement for all comfort women and veterans,” said Chairman Tang, as well as the 2015 Korea-Japan comfort women agreement. “It was the use of the terrible pain of the grandmothers as a diplomatic tactic between the countries.”
Meanwhile, former Congressman Honda urged President Joe Biden to more actively intervene in Asian issues such as Korea, China, Japan and “do the right thing.”