I don't really know where to start with this. A Mitsubishi endowed Professor of Law at Harvard is arguing that comfort women were all prostitutes. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0144818820301848#
Contracting for sex in the Pacific War

The protracted political dispute between South Korea and Japan over the wartime brothels called "comfort stations" obscures the contractual dynamics i…

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0144818820301848#
He published a version of that academic article on Japan Forward, an English language site run by Sankei Shinbun. https://japan-forward.com/recovering-the-truth-about-the-comfort-women/
Recovering the Truth about the Comfort Women | JAPAN Forward

As academics, we are used to dealing with exaggerations. We are not used to finding that the story is pure fiction. But that is the nature of the comfort-women-sex-slave story.

https://japan-forward.com/recovering-the-truth-about-the-comfort-women/
This story is understandably getting a lot of traction in Korean language news media. But I haven't seen much response from scholars in the US. This is grotesque.
Many historians of Japan (including at Harvard) signed an open letter on this issue back in 2015. https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/contributed-files/japan-scholars-statement-2015.5.4-eng_0.pdf
We might want to ignore the article above, but given the front page reporting on it in Korea, which includes his institution in every report, I'm not sure we can, or should.
(just to be clear I'm not saying the lack of response is grotesque, I mean the article itself - it only just came out I believe)
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