2 hours agoHarvard Professor Causes Anger With the article on 200,000 War Sex Women
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)A Harvard professor has caused much anger between his colleagues and activists after claiming that women who had been forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army had chosen to work in public homes during the war era. J Mark Ramseer, professor of Japanese legal studies at Harvard Law School, challenged [...]
J Mark Ramseyer, professor of Japanese legal studies at Harvard Law School, challenged the accepted Narrative that some 200 thousand mostly Korean women, but also Chinese, from South East Asia and a small Japanese and European number had been forced or deceived to work on military boards between 1932 and 1945, writes The Guardian, following Periscope.
In an academic article published online last year, Ramseer claimed that women were sex workers who had voluntarily agreed to do so as a view supported by Japanese ultra-conservators trying to ease their country's atrocities during the war.
The article, entitled “Contact for Sex in the Pacific War”, had to be presented this month, but it was suspended after Ramseyer's claims were severely reproved.
In another article on an English site, Ramseyer refused the widely accepted theory that the sex - working women's system was “pure selection”.
Famous academics have challenged this view of Harvard professor, saying there was no historical evidence of the contracts he writes about. /Periscope
