This book by J Mark Ramseyer and Jason M Morgan exposes the twin dangers of intellectual dishonesty and censorship on the comfort women issue in academia.
"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.
The quest for historical truth requires healthy debates, not politicizing history and canceling others to silence. True historians do not politicize the past.
Should Japan embark on CO2 reduction negotiations without understanding the essence of the matter, it may end up squandering an enormous amount of its wealth for...
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...
I respect the comfort women immensely, actually. They were strong, canny, resilient, even fiercely independent. And they weren’t a monolith. Every woman had her own story.
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