Japanese scholar "Ramzier's thesis, the premise of equal bargaining... disregarding the situation of women"

Japanese researchers have also begun to criticize the thesis by John Mark Ramsey, a professor at Harvard University Law School, who has identified victims of Japanese military comfort women as prostitutes.

Ramsey's thesis has been pointed out that it is not convincing because it does not properly consider the results of the Japanese government's investigation into the Japanese military comfort women issue, testimony of surviving victims, and facts found in Japanese official documents confirmed on the Japanese military comfort women issue.

In addition to the contents of the victims of the comfort women of the Japanese military, criticism has been raised that the analysis of Japan's public chant system, which he presented together in his thesis, has neglected the background of the times.

Rikkyo University Professor Akane Onozawa, who has studied Japan's modern public commencement system and Japanese military comfort women system, said Ramzier's thesis did not properly take into account the social conditions of women at the time in connection with the Japanese prostitute contract.

Professor Onozawa explained, "Modern Japanese women were forced to live an indefinite life under the Japanese family system of the past, the Ie system, and Gongchang is a system that is deeply related to this situation of women."

He said, "Mr. Ramzier's thesis'The Contract of Prostitution in the Pacific War' was written on the premise that this point was neglected and that the manager and the prostitute and the prostitute seemed to have negotiated and signed a contract under an equal relationship. "I pointed out.

Professor Onozawa also said, "It is contrary to the facts that I wrote that the company could simply close the business, and the argument is weak," and he predicted that he will refute this at an online rally to be held on the 14th of next month.

Ramsey was criticized for distorting the historical facts by designating the victims of comfort women in the Japanese military as prostitutes, and it is intellectually interpreted that the analysis of the Gongchang system, which is the basis of this claim, should be viewed as being in error.

With thesis on Japanese military comfort women victims as prostitutes, even the question of whether Ramsay has the qualifications as a scholar is spreading.

Fight for Justice, a Japanese civic group that operates a site on the comfort women issue of the Japanese military, was written by Professor Ramsey about the contract for prognosis 30 years ago. He pointed out that he wrote a dissertation full of prejudice on the issue of Buraku, a type of discrimination.