Harvard professor ignites uproar over Korean sex slave claims
> He rejected accounts of forced labor as “pure fiction,” saying the Japanese army “did not dragoon Korean women to work in its brothels.”
Historical revisionist claims like these are quite popular in Japan, and supported by the nationalist government.
The original paper http://chwe.net/ramseyer/ramseyer.pdf
doi.org/10.1016/j.irle.2020.105971