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...
Japan and South Korea are important neighbors. It’s time to look at the records, pay respect to Korean society of the era, and overcome the issues...
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...
This incident represents the second infringement on academic freedom this year in the debate about the history of wartime comfort women.
There are a growing number of researchers looking at original documents on the comfort women issue and coming to the same conclusion. They are not the...
The critics’ aim is to intimidate public intellectuals through Nazi-like mob-attack tactics.
The row about Professor J. Mark Ramseyer’s work on comfort women is about basic academic standards, not freedom of expression, say Professors Tessa Morris Suzuki and...
Citizen groups are trying to get Professor J. Mark Ramseyer’s paper withdrawn from an upcoming journal, and the South Korean media has initiated an attack on...
Those who dislike Harvard Law Professor J. Mark Ramseyer’s scholarly interpretation — that comfort women were voluntary employees under contract — have failed to cite any...
As academics, we are used to dealing with exaggerations. We are not used to finding that the story is pure fiction. But that is the nature...
Rumor has it that Princeton decided not to create a law school because it thought a trade school would tarnish its scholarly reputation. True or...
Reviewed by J. Mark Ramseyer, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA. JAPAN Forward readers know Colin P.A. Jones as the Canadian lawyer and Doshisha professor...