John Mark Ramseyer Professor of Law School at Harvard University. [사진 하버드대]
– “The comfort women of the Japanese military are not sex slaves forced into prostitution, but for profit, they signed a contract with the Japanese military and engaged in prostitution.”
Harvard University professor’s arguments have recently been known through Japanese media, causing controversy.
The controversy is John Mark Ramseyer, professor of law at Harvard University. He published the’International Review of Law and Economics’ Volume 65 (to be published in March), a legal and economic journal scheduled to be published in March. for sex in the Pacific War).
On the 28th of last month, the Nikkei Shimbun of Japan released a summary of the thesis with the consent of Professor Ramseyre, evaluating that the research is of great significance.
According to reports, Professor Ramseyre argued in the thesis that Japanese military comfort women and the Japanese military signed a contract for mutual benefit at the time, and that it was not true that the Japanese government and the Joseon Governor-General forced women to engage in prostitution or cooperated with unjust recruiters. did. In addition, he said that only a few of the victims fell into the job of the recruiter.
▶At that time, when the Japanese Ministry of Home Affairs recruited’comfort women of the Japanese military’, only women who had previously worked as prostitutes were employed. Points ▶I heard as the basis for the argument that I was instructed to tell me that I must return to Korea immediately after the contract is over.
The Nikkei Shimbun found that the comfort women were not sexual slaves, and evaluated that the thesis was significant. He added that the false image that the Japanese military used Korean women as sex slaves in the past is spreading around the world, and he hopes to restore the image with this thesis.
Professor Ramseyre is currently studying Japanese law at Harvard University and lectures on the advancement of human rights in Japan. On the university’s website, he introduced himself, saying,’I spent most of my childhood in Japan and studied Japanese history at graduate school.’
The expression’sex slave’ for victims of comfort women has been used on the international stage since it appeared in the United Nations report in 1996.
Reporter Seok-Hyun Ko [email protected]
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