There was no forced labor. South Koreans volunteered to go to the Japanese home islands in droves for better pay and plentiful job opportunities.
A revealing look at cultural, national, and international obstacles facing Japan-Korea relations and the attempts to bring home North Korea’s Japanese abductees.
This incident represents the second infringement on academic freedom this year in the debate about the history of wartime comfort women.
The comfort women issue will not be resolved by running away from the facts and stifling debate because it is not what you want to hear.
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...
Parents’ agreement to what their daughters were being recruited for was indisputably the “contracts.” Critics of Harvard Professor J. Mark Ramseyer don’t seem to be aware...
Here is a case study that explores how contract negotiations were carried out and what was covered in the agreements with the parents and women who...
Take a look at the popular “comfort women” theory, and the contrary evidence which, despite attacks on academic freedom, has come forth through research in South...
Payment terms were better for wartime comfort women than for prewar prostitutes … We should also consider that the American and German military ran comfort stations...
Forced recruitment? Sexual slavery? The relationship between comfort women and comfort station owners in the Japanese colonial period must be viewed as “indentured servitude contracts.” 1st...