‘램지어 사태’ - 일본군‘위안부’ 부정론의 추가 사례

Abstract

An article on the Japanese military ‘comfort women’ of J. Mark Ramseyer, Mitsubishi professor of Japanese legal studies at Harvard Law School, made a fuss at the beginning of 2021. Ramseyer’s attack on the Japanese military ‘comfort women’ has been clearly established as a case to be withdrawn for academic infidelity by the global academic community within a short period of a month or so.<BR>Ramseyer’s writing, which was one of a series of articles on his racial-class hate theory that emerged to the fore in the late 2010s, is the declaration of his own identity as a the Japanese military ‘comfort women’ denalist under the influence of the Japanese military ‘comfort women’ denialism in Japan waging the ‘history war’. Ramseyer’s claim that forced mobilization and sexual slavery are simply untrue is the same as the conventional argument of the Japanese military ‘comfort women’ denialism in Japan since the late 1990s, and is only a flimsy slang or hope that can be used only within Japan. Ramseyer’s failure is a proof of that fact.<BR>Nevertheless, it is unlikely that the Japanese military ‘comfort women’ denialism even leaded by the Japanese government will soon end. Rather, amid the bizarre silence of the Japanese media, it is even questioned whether the entire Japanese society is becoming an ‘island of obstinacy and confirmation bias.’ In order to properly solve the the Japanese military ‘comfort women’ issue, and to establish its proper place in the history, the Korean society, together with the international community including Japanese citizens, must make more intense efforts.