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Statement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Andrew Gordon  and
Carter Eckert
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Earlier this month at the request of the editor of the International Review of Law and Economics, we began to write a critical response to the article “Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War,” by Professor J. Mark Ramseyer, at that point released online by the journal with plans for formal publication in March.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 19 , Issue 5 , March 2021 , e9
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Copyright © The Authors 2021

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Notes

1 Hori Kazuo, Kimura Kan, translators, Biruma-Singapore Military Comfort Station “ビルマ・シンガポールの従 軍慰安所” (2013). The translation includes a valuable interpretive essay by Professor An Pyŏngjik.

2 Search for keyword 慰安所 via Asahi online database Kikuzo, 2/10/2021. Article on t he park “市内外を包む 緑の慰安所” is (Comfort station surrounded by green in city parks”) May 11, 1930, Tokyo am edition, p. 11.

3 “一躍半島の慰安所“ (“Great Advance for Ianjo in the [Korean] Peninsula), Chōsen shinbun (March 12, 1937). Cited online as Sinmun sŭk’ŭrap charyo Chosŏn sinmun.

4 We would like to acknowledge here with thanks the research work on this question of several of our doctoral candidates: Sujin Elisa Han; Sara Kang; Anna Jungeun Lee; Sungik Yang.

5 Kang Chŏngsuk, “Ilbon’gun ‘wianbu’je ŭi singminsŏng yŏn’gu: Chosŏn’in ‘wianbu’rul chungsim ŭro” [A study of the colonialist character of the ‘comfort woman’ system of the Japanese military centered on Korean ‘comfort women’] Ph.D. diss., Sŏnggyungwan University, 2010, p. 112.

6 Sarah Soh, The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Post-Colonial Memory in Korea and Japan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008) p.121