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Japanese far-right academic group held an academic conference in support of Harvard University Professor Ramsey, who wrote the comfort women thesis.

While criticizing scholars who criticized Ramsey's thesis, he made ridiculous arguments, and Professor Ramsey repelled his criticism through a video message saying that he was attempting an academic assassination.



Correspondent Yoo Seong-jae interviewed himself in Tokyo.



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An academic conference held in Tokyo by a Japanese far-right academic organization.



To examine the international debate over Professor Ramsey's thesis, I hung the flag on both sides of the Japanese flag and even the stars and stripes on the podium, but only the flag was hung upside down.




When one attendee pointed out, the conference began as a skit to fix it again.



Speakers attacked over 3,000 conscientious scholars who signed the paper, calling for the Ramsey thesis to be cancelled.



[Visiting Professor Nishioka/Reitaku University: Collecting 3,000 signatures and canceling one thesis is against academic freedom. Let's argue with me.] During the



event, a video message from Professor Ramsey was also released.



Ramsey condemned the actions of scholars who were critical of his thesis in Japanese as'attempting an academic assassination'.



[Professor Ramsay/Harvard University: I think I'm proud of doing something like an attempted assassination against a scholar.] The



continued raising of questions about the thesis has a hidden intention.



[Professor Ramsay/Harvard University: When I receive strong criticism, I feel isolated and question myself, but I am aiming for that.]



A far-right historian in the debate made a ridiculous argument.



[Hatta/Far Right Historian: There was a system like a comfort woman in Korea, and the US military stayed in Korea for a very long time, right?] After



two months of controversy, the Japanese far-right academia belatedly tried to defend Ramsay, but only the existing compelling arguments. It was a repeating event.



(Video coverage: Han Cheol-min, Video editing: Kim Ho-jin)