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Harvard University professor who wrote a dissertation denying history and insulting comfort women in her thesis claimed that a 10-year-old girl was also a voluntary contract prostitute.
It has been confirmed that over 100 people have agreed so far, although unbearable American scholars are running a criticism of it.
Correspondent Kim Soo-hyung from Washington covered it alone.
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his thesis, Harvard University professor Ramsey mentions Osaki, a 10-year-old Japanese girl, explaining the prostitution system before the Pacific War.
When a prostitute recruitment agency promised to pay 300 yen in advance for working abroad, a 10-year-old girl wrote that she knew what would happen and agreed.
Even such a young girl was crafted to say that she was a contract prostitute and applied the same to the victims of comfort women.
Untolerant American and European economics professors are turning to the forums, criticizing Professor Ramsey.
So far, 107 economists have been named, and the number continues to increase.
They criticized Professor Ramsey for using economics to justify the terrible cruelty of Japan.
It has also been pointed out that after 1896, the Japanese government made a law that prevented people under the age of 20 from signing contracts.
Professors said that Ramsay had given a huge indulgence to Japanese imperialism without any grounds, and urged the dissertation to be withdrawn and to disclose the details of how it was published in the journal.
[Michael Choi/ Professor at UCLA (Signature Participation): This is something you really shouldn't do.
This is a violation of academic principles.] Although the
thesis is virtually on the verge of expulsion, Professor Harvard Ramsay continues to remain silent.
(Video coverage: Kang Dong-cheol, Video editing: Kim Ho-jin)