Ramsayer Harvard University Professor, Japanese Government Medal
Distortion like a free contract
I was a child in Japan and received a Japanese government medal.
John Mark Ramsey, professor at Harvard Law School. Harvard Law School website capture
An excommunication is expected because an American university professor will publish a paper in an academic journal claiming that the victims of comfort women in the Japanese military are “prostitutes”. Looking at thesis information site’Science Direct’ on the 1st, in the International Review of Law and Economics scheduled to be published in March, a dissertation by John Mark Ramseyer, professor of law at Harvard University, which contains a view on interpreting the damage of Japanese military comfort women as an extension of prostitution It is carried. A summary of the thesis titled’Contracting for sex in the Pacific War’ says, “Women demanded short-term contracts because they went to the battlefield, and the contractors demanded contracts that give women incentives.” Written on it. “The contractor and the woman have a contract that allows them to leave early if they make enough profits and combines a large upfront payment for one or two years,” he wrote. Right-wing tendencies recently introduced this thesis under the title of “The’comfort women = sex slave’ negative theory that spreads around the world.” The paper analyzed this paper using the economics method that “whatever object, humans seek their own interests under given conditions. Comfort women are no exception. Based on the achievements of other researchers and historical records of Japan and Joseon at the time, the thesis said that Korean comfort women and Japanese comfort women were also certified prostitutes, and that they were not’sex slaves’ who were kidnapped by Japan and forced to prostitute. Point out that” he wrote. However, Professor Ramzier’s argument is the official opinion of the Japanese government and contradicts the’Kono Discourse’ (1993), which acknowledges the coercion of the comfort women mobilization process and the Japanese military intervention. In Kono’s discourse, “Regarding the recruitment of comfort women, the service provider who received the request of the military was in charge of this, but even in such cases, there were many cases of recruitment against their intentions, such as by cowardice and coercion. It turned out that there were also enemies. In addition, life at a comfort station was terrible under compulsory circumstances.” Professor Ramsey spent his childhood in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan, and his full text is Japanese law. In 2018, he was awarded the Japanese government’s medal of the Rook Iljang, one of the types of Rook Iljang. By Jo Ki-won, staff reporter [email protected]