J. Mark Ramseyer
American legal academic
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| January 4 2022 | Ramseyer published a response to his critics titled 'Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War: A Response to My Critics', maintaining his original claims about comfort women. |
| 2021 | Published a controversial preprint article in the International Review of Law and Economics arguing that comfort women were primarily voluntary prostitutes, which drew significant academic and public scrutiny. |
| May 2021 | The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus published a special issue with four critical essays challenging Ramseyer's research methods and historical claims. |
| April 2021 | Ramseyer joined a Zoom event organized by right-wing Japanese groups, calling his critics 'Stalinists' and alleging anti-Japanese bias in American universities. |
| March 2021 | Comfort woman survivor Lee Yong-soo met with Harvard students via Zoom to dispute Ramseyer's characterization and call for apologies. |
| March 15 2021 | The Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard issued a statement questioning the scholarly integrity of Ramseyer's article. |
| February 2021 | Harvard professors Andrew Gordon and Carter Eckert submitted a critical statement to the journal, requesting delay of formal publication pending expert peer review. |
| October 23 2020 | Published a book review in Japanese Studies journal reviewing R.W. Kostal's 'Laying Down the Law: The American Legal Revolutions in Occupied Germany and Japan' |
| October 2 2020 | Released academic paper 'Social Capital and the Problem of Opportunistic Leadership: The Example of Koreans in Japan' as a John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics & Business Discussion Paper |
| September 10 2020 | Published academic paper 'Contracting for Compassion in Japanese Buddhism' as a Harvard John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper |
| August 29 2020 | Co-authored paper 'Suing over Ostracism in Japan: The Informational Logic' with Eric Rasmusen |
| 2019 | Ramseyer published a controversial academic article in the International Review of Law and Economics arguing that Burakumin is a 'fictive identity' created in 1922, which subsequently prompted detailed rebuttals from Japanese and western scholars. |
| 2019 | J. Mark Ramseyer wrote a book chapter titled 'Privatizing Police: Japanese Police, the Korean Massacre, and Private Security Firms' for the Cambridge Handbook on Privatization, which contained controversial claims about the 1923 massacre of Koreans. |
| 2018 | Awarded Japan's Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon in recognition of his extensive contributions to Japanese studies in the U.S. and promotion of understanding of Japanese society and culture. |
| 2015 | Published academic book 'Second-Best Justice: The Virtues of Japanese Private Law' |
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