@nick_kapur@Harvard_Law Meanwhile, South Korean Professors and Politicians running for mayor of Seoul and Busan South Korea, sent a written statement in support of Professor Ramseyer to Harvard University.
..However, in the 30 years since the comfort women issue was raised, not a single document has been presented to prove that Korean women were forcibly taken away by Japanese government officials』
@nick_kapur@Harvard_Law The South Korean scholars said,
"Foreigners who consider themselves conscientious are using this issue to complement their own ideology, which is hindering the normalization of Japan-South Korea relations".
Have you ever read John Dower's "War without mercy"?
But what is written here is also an understatement.
@Robdekoter@Tamalanumber1 Why is it not a "crime against humanity" of the U.S. to indiscriminately bomb residential areas with nuclear bombs and fire retardant bombs, killing a million non-combatants in 66 Japanese cities that had already lost their combat capabilities at the end of the Pacific War?
@Robdekoter@Tamalanumber1 How could the Allies, who vomited so violently at the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews, justify the atomic bombings and indiscriminate bombings of Japan?
Aside from the genocide of the Jews, racism is rarely the subject of World War II accounts.
@ECMcLaughlin His paper is almost identical to the findings of Lee Young-hoon (Former prof of Seoul Univ "Anti-Japanese Tribalism" & Park Yuha (Prof.of Sejong Univ "Comfort Women of the Empire".
@ECMcLaughlin Lee Young-hoon: Former professor of Seoul University (South Korea) disputes the “sex slave” narrative, stating that comfort women were contracted sex workers.
– a profession legal in the Japanese Empire. They enjoyed some freedom of movement and were paid.
@ECMcLaughlin “’Sex slave" is very political terminology,” he said.
“We found operational rules and regulations for comfort stations.
These rules were adhered to and many women from Korea and Japan were able to save up for their lives after service.”