Harvard Law School professor Mark Ramsier, who caused controversy by writing a thesis defining the comfort women as prostitutes, once again remarked.
In the preface to a book titled "Comfort Women Are All Under Consensus Contracts" recently published by Waseda University Professor Tetsuo Arima, Professor Ramzier asserts that "the Japanese military did not have to forcibly recruit prostitutes, nor could they afford it."
Then, after Seiji Yoshida's memoir, 'My War Crimes', which contains testimonies that she took the comfort women directly from Jeju Island, was published in 1983, claims for compensation for damages began to appear in Korea. Even the woman who spoke up or the woman who said she became a comfort woman under pressure from her father started saying that she was forcibly taken into custody by the Japanese military."
He also criticized the domestic academic community, where voices demanding the withdrawal of his thesis and an apology were pouring out, arguing that it was 'like a common struggle in academia' by spreading the theory of color.
The fact that Professor Ramzier wrote such a foreword is interpreted as a kind of declaration that he will continue to make distorted claims regarding the comfort women issue.