Ramseyer and the Right-Wing Ecosystem Suffocating Japan – Tokyo Review

In Japan, many right wing revisionist groups continue to glorify its wartime legacy, seeking to validate their versions of the past however they can. The issue of sexual slavery, or “comfort women,” and forced labor during Japan’s colonization of East Asia remains contested and unresolved. In early 2021, right wing revisionists found a coveted ally in J. Mark Ramseyer, the Mitsubishi Professor of