"My position on the comfort women issue is predicated on historical evidence and research" says Dr Tetsuo Arima in response to critics who would "cancel" him.
In "Comfort Women: The North Korean Connection," Waseda U's Tetsuo Arima and Harvard Law's J Mark Ramseyer expose how Pyongyang is driving the historical lie.
Authored by J Mark Ramseyer and Tetsuo Arima, "Comfort Women: The North Korean Connection" is the No. 1 most-downloaded SSRN paper in its category of all...
Archival research specialist Tetsuo Arima says the critics need to comprehend the source documents and set aside their political motives, before dismissing Harvard law professor Ramseyer's...
Waseda University Professor Tetsuo Arima hopes his essays will start fair academic discussions and help restore the proper way of seeking the truth about our past.
Predictions are that the core of this historical confrontation will shift as South Koreans take a fresh look at North Korea's role. Will Tokyo follow?
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Pyongyang has peddled the comfort women story to divert attention from its weapons program and state-sponsored abduction.
The quest for historical truth requires healthy debates, not politicizing history and canceling others to silence. True historians do not politicize the past.
Crimes happened, yes, and these were committed by unethical brokers and unscrupulous Japanese inspectors on the ground. But it is simply not true that the Japanese...
Point by point, renowned expert in Japanese legal history J. Mark Ramseyer shows how his critics were “wrong on law,” “wrong on facts,” and totally missed...