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				First published: March 1, 2025 - Last updated: March 1, 2025
			TITLE INFORMATION 
			
			Authors: Amy Stanley, David Ambaras, Hannah Shepherd, Sayaka Chatani, Chelsea Szendi Schieder
			
 Title: Scholarly and Public Responses to “Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War”
 
 Subtitle: The Current State of the Problem, A Report by Concerned Scholars
 
 Journal: The Asia-Pacific Journal | Japan Focus
 
 Volume: 21
 
 Issue: 11
 
 Year: November 5, 2023
 
 Pages: 15 pages (PDF)
 
 eISSN: 1557-4660 - 
				Find a Library: WorldCat
 
 Language: English
 
 Keywords: 
				Modern History: 
					20th Century, 
					21st Century | 
				Asian History: 
					Japanese History, 
					Korean History | 
				Types: 
					Forced Prostitution / 
						"Comfort Women" System; 
				Types: 
					Wartime Sexual Violence / 
						Asia-Pacific War; 
				Research: 
					Controversies / 
						Ramseyer Debate
 
 FULL TEXT
 
			
			Link:
			The Asia-Pacific Journal (Free Access)
			 
 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
 
			
			Authors:
			- 
				David Ambaras, 
					Department of History, 
					North Carolina State University - 
					Google Scholar, 
					Knowledge Commons
 
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				Sayaka Chatani, 
					Department of History, 
					National University of Singapore - 
					Academia.edu, 
					Personal Website
 
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				Chelsea Szendi Schieder: 
					Personal Website, 
					Academia.edu, 
					Google Scholar, 
					ResearchGate
 
 - 
				Hannah Shepherd, 
					Department of History, 
					Yale University
 
 - 
				Amy Stanley, 
					Department of History, 
					Northwestern University - 
					Personal Website, 
					Wikipedia
 
 Abstract: 
				»J. Mark Ramseyer's 2020 article "Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War" provoked numerous highly critical responses from the general public and the scholarly community. Our group composed a report that analyzed the article and concluded that it should be retracted because it misused and distorted evidence. After more than two years of investigation, during which Ramseyer published a response to his critics, the editors of the International Review of Law & Economics decided not to retract the article, but to keep a statement of concern attached to the final published version. In this follow-up report, we explore the legacy of the original article as it relates to problems of academic integrity and historical denialism in public discourse. We highlight Ramseyer's persistent strategies of obfuscation and suggest how historians might continue to address the problem of deliberately misleading scholarship masquerading as "academic freedom."« 
				(Source: The Asia-Pacific Journal)
 
 Contents:
 
			
			
			|  | Abstract (p. 1) |  
			|  | More of the same? Ramseyer’s “A Response to My Critics” (p. 1) |  
			|  | The IRLE’s response (p. 5) |  
			|  | Ramseyer on the offensive: allies, enablers, and the weaponization of “academic freedom” (p. 6) |  
			|  | Repairing the damage and moving forward (p. 9) |  
			|  | Acknowledgements (p. 10) |  
			|  | Notes (p. 10) |  Wikipedia: 
				History of Asia: 
					History of Japan / 
						Shōwa era | 
				History of Asia: 
					History of Korea / 
						Korea under Japanese rule | 
				Historical negationism: 
					Comfort women denial / 
						Mark Ramseyer | 
				Prostitution: 
					Forced prostitution / 
						Comfort women | 
				Sex and the law: 
					Wartime sexual violence / 
						Wartime sexual violence in World War II | 
				War: 
					Pacific War / 
						Japanese war crimes
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