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Academia criticized the dissertation of a law school professor at Harvard University who denied the coercion of Japanese military comfort women and defined victims as “voluntary prostitutes”.
Harvard University Journalist <하버드 크림슨>(Local time) said on the 7th (local time) that during World War II, Japanese military comfort women were involved in an international controversy, claimed by Professor Mark Ramsay that was voluntarily recruited.
Next, “Japanese right-wing daily newspaper <산케이신문>This paper, which was introduced by this, made headlines in the Korean media and faced public outrage.”
“The United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Amnesty International, Korea, the United States, Japan and other countries have published reports on the history of sex slavery for comfort women,” he said. “The few surviving comfort women victims are still waiting for justice.” Explained.
In a paper titled’Contracting for sex in the Pacific War’, Professor Ramsey argued that the comfort women of the Japanese military at the time were certified prostitutes, and were not’sex slaves’ who were kidnapped by Japan and forced to prostitute. did.
The Japanese Ministry of Home Affairs then demanded that comfort women recruiters only hire women who are prostitutes, and the competent police also emphasized that they personally confirmed that the comfort women had stepped up on their own.
“I was shocked… a stupid product that lacks evidence”
However, the newspaper reported that many legal scholars and historians in South Korea and the United States pointed out the flaws of Professor Ramsey’s argument and raised questions about the source of the paper.
Professor Carter Eckerty, who teaches Korean history at Harvard University, commented on Ramsey’s thesis that it was “woefully empirical, historical, and morally woefully flawed,” along with Professor Andrew Gordon of the Department of History. He said he was preparing to refute.
Alexis Duden, a professor of history at the University of Connecticut, who attended Professor Ramsey’s class at the University of Chicago in the 1990s said, “It was shocking when I saw the first draft of the thesis.” It’s just that.
“Professor Ramsay was conceptually wrong because he didn’t understand the circumstances or what really happened at the time,” he stressed.
Professor Durdon in 2019 <뉴욕타임스>In his article in the article, “The conflict between Korea and Japan is due to the United States’ partial intervention in the history of the two countries.”
Noah Feldman, a law school professor at Harvard University, who studied the theory of comfort women contracts, said that Ramsayer compared comfort women contracts to the’Jim Crow law’ (a policy of segregation of black people). It proved that it was a contract.”
In addition, Catherine Moon, a professor of Asian political science at Wellesley College, refuted Professor Ramsey’s argument that “how can we prove that women aged 14 to 16 have fully understood the terms of the contract?”
Controversial Party Ramsay “No more research on comfort women”
Harvard University students also came out. The Harvard Law School Korean Student Association (KAHLS) issued a statement saying, “I strongly condemn the intentional deletion of human rights violations and war crimes,” and more than 800 students signed up.
The Harvard Undergraduate Korean Student Association (KISA) also announced that it would submit a petition to the university requesting Professor Ramsey’s apology and withdrawal of the thesis.
A Korean student studying at Harvard University criticized “It is disastrous that a law school professor at Harvard University, which is highly respected by the Korean American community, can produce such a thesis.”
Prof. Ramsay then responded to the backlash as “the responsibility of law school students,” and “I am willing to talk to students about the thesis.” In addition, he added, “There are no plans to further research on comfort women in the Japanese military.”
He spent his childhood in Japan and strongly denied controversy over receiving a medal from the Japanese government, saying, “No such thing has affected the thesis at all.” They also answered “I can’t read Korean” for the reason for not citing Korean materials.
Professor Ramsey said that he was introduced as a’Mitsubishi Japan Law Faculty Professor’ on the website of the law school, saying, “I know the title created by the Mitsubishi Group donating about 1.5 million dollars to Harvard in the 1970s.” I have not received it,” he said.
Harvard University and a law school spokesman said they did not respond to requests for comment. <크림슨>Said.