My Response to Ramseyer's Effort to Deny the History of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery

The main objective of this paper is to critically evaluate as many of Ramseyer's arguments as possible included in his 2022 paper. It consists of three sections in addition to the introduction and concluding remarks. The first section summarizes the expanded literature that interpreted the &quo...

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Published in:Journal of international women's studies 2022-12, Vol.24 (9), p.1-36
Main Author: Min, Pyong Gap
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic work
Academic writing
Armed forces
College teachers
Comfort
Comfort women
Contract labor
Councils
Criticism and interpretation
Debates
Demographic aspects
Editorials
Game theory
History
Human rights
Labor contracts
Literary criticism
Military history
Presidential elections
Prostitution
Ramseyer, J. Mark
Sex industry
Sex workers
Sexual abuse
Slavery
Slaves
Women
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Summary:The main objective of this paper is to critically evaluate as many of Ramseyer's arguments as possible included in his 2022 paper. It consists of three sections in addition to the introduction and concluding remarks. The first section summarizes the expanded literature that interpreted the "comfort women" system as sexual slavery, judgments, and recommendations to the Japanese government given by scholars, international human rights organizations and the legislative branches of four Western countries. Since Ramseyer published his article denying the "comfort women" system as sexual slavery without introducing this literature, we cannot consider his article as an academic work. The second section critically evaluates Ramseyer's unacceptable and untenable arguments that Japanese and Korean "comfort women" were commercial sex workers with labor contracts rather than sexual slaves. The third section critically evaluates Ramseyer's severe criticisms of the Korean council and its redress activities.
ISSN:1539-8706
1539-8706