NEW YORK/SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A Harvard professor has claimed that Japan did not force Korean and other women into sexual slavery during World War II, renewing his much-denounced claims that the victims were actually prostitutes. J. Mark Ramseyer of the Harvard Law School made the claim in the preface to a recently [...]
NEW YORK/SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A Harvard law school professor, criticized for his disputed article casting victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery as prostitutes, has accused a Korean scholar of “savage attacks” on him, warning that he will mull counteraction. Lee Jinhee, an associate professor of history at Eastern Illinois University, told Yonhap [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul-based nongovernmental organization has called for the withdrawal of a paper written by a Harvard University professor claiming that Japan’s wartime sexual slavery was voluntary prostitution. The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK), a group known for international online campaigns to promote the awareness of South Korea’s history, [...]
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A U.S. journal on Thursday said it has launched an investigation into concerns over an article that claimed Japan’s wartime sexual slavery had actually been voluntary prostitution. The International Review of Law and Economics posted a notice saying such concerns have been raised and are now being investigated. “The International [...]