Facts and painstaking scholarly work helped Professor J Mark Ramseyer overcome ignorance and hate to overturn a popular fiction on the comfort women debate.
Hata provides an objective dissent on orthodox views of comfort women in Korea while also acknowledging the poverty that plagued many Chosun women victims.
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...
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...
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...
In 1991, Takashi Uemura wrote an article based on a recording that was made by the first of the “comfort women” to go public, Kim...
On July 3, 2019, Japan halted the unrestricted export to South Korea of three high-tech materials essential for the production of semiconductors and display...
An article published in the January 30, 2019, edition of The New York Times on the comfort women controversy currently straining Japan-South Korea relations quickly...
Another unreasonable report bearing the United Nations (U.N.) name has surfaced. On November 19, the U.N. Committee on Enforced Disappearances, which forbids...
By The Sankei Shimbun Claiming “technical errors,” The Asahi Shimbun has made inaccessible two articles in English from August 2014, it was...
On July 6, a voluntary group intent on ending the bias in reporting on the issue of wartime comfort women met with The...
Miki Ohtaka In 1983, the late Seiji Yoshida, who gave the Asahi Shimbun and many other researchers and media outlets his false...
