MeOur Concerned Scholars group has released "Scholarly and Public Responses to 'Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War': The Current State of the Problem." We address issues stemming from J. Mark Ramseyer's comfort women article & its aftermath, focusing on questions of academic integrity & historical denialism. We suggest how historians might continue to address the problem of misleading scholarship based on false claims masquerading as “academic freedom.” 1/3 https://sites.google.com/view/concernedhistorians/the-current-state-of-the-problem-sept-2023 #histodons
For background, including our original report on Ramseyer's article and the reasons it should have been retracted, see https://apjjf.org/2021/5/ToC2.html 2/3
Supplement to Special Issue: Academic Integrity at Stake: The Ramseyer Article - Four Letters (Table of Contents)
A series of portraits of former “comfort women” hang on the office wall of Lila Pilipina, an organization that gathers survivors of wartime sexual slavery, in Manila. (Shallah Montero for The W
And see Jeannie Suk Gersen's New Yorker article: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/seeking-the-true-story-of-the-comfort-women-j-mark-ramseyer 3/3
