Professor J Mark Ramseyer and Jason Morgan explore the research and academic challenges of scrutinizing the comfort women issue in an exclusive interview.
Professors Ramseyer and Morgan's book demonstrates the elusiveness of truth and raises questions about protecting academic freedom in the comfort women debate.
Durable international ties depend on shared values and material interests, and for democracies, the foundation of such is ultimately individual liberty.
Critics from democratic countries should support academic freedom in Hong Kong, not by isolating it but by engaging with it even more, the author argues.