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, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Right-wing extremists in Japan are stepping up to protect J. Mark Ramseyer, a Japanese legal studies professor at Harvard University who has claimed that sex slaves held captive by the Japanese military during World War II were ‘contractual prostitutes’. Extremists are attempting to create a sentiment against calls to [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Philadelphia City Council has adopted a resolution condemning a professor of Harvard University for describing victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery as prostitutes in an academic paper. “On behalf of the survivors, and for women and girls around the world, we must continue to push back on dangerous [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A grandson of a legendary Korean independence fighter said Tuesday that he will reject a request from the Harvard president to reconsider his decision not to donate his family’s historical archives over a controversial paper portraying wartime sexual slaves as prostitutes. Philip Ahn Cuddy, the grandson of Ahn Chang-ho, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A Harvard professor, criticized for his depiction of victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery as prostitutes, will “significantly” revise another controversial paper on the 1923 massacre of Koreans in Japan, a co-editor of an academic handbook said Saturday. In an email interview with Yonhap News Agency, Alon Harel, the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Three U.S. professors have criticized a recent controversial claim by a Harvard University professor that Japan’s wartime sexual slavery was voluntary prostitution. Mark Peterson, professor emeritus of Korean, Asian and Near Eastern languages at Brigham Young University in Utah, posted a column on Korea.net, the South Korean government’s foreign language [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean students at Harvard University have strongly criticized a professor over his controversial claim that Japan’s wartime sexual slavery was actually voluntary prostitution, demanding its immediate withdrawal and his official apology to victims. Harvard Korean Society made the demand in a statement on its website after Harvard Law School [...]