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Learn more at augustin.edu backslash M-A-C-E. Mark Ramseyer is Professor of Law at Harvard University.

He has co-authored a new book, I think it's a very important study, entitled The Comfort Women Hoax, a Fake Memoir, North Korean Spies, and Hit Squads

in the Academic Swamp. That's our topic today. Welcome, Professor Ramseyer.

Thank you. Give us first just a broad historical background of when and where and why.

What is the situation of the comfort women?

Not your hoax, not the hoax yet, but just the full recent historical background.

Well, the historical background?

Well, the historical background goes to the 1930s.

And as Japan started to expand over the Chinese continent,

it was putting in bases.

And young man patronized prostitutes. If one goes to pass any base anywhere, I think,

it's surrounded by brothels and independent streetwalkers.

And the Japanese army had a problem, because earlier in the century, particularly during the

Siberian expedition right after the Russian Revolution, they had sent their troops in and huge

fractions were disabled, basically disabled by gonorrhea.

And the Japanese military desperately wanted to avoid that.

And the way that they avoided it sort of domestically was that at least the licensed,

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