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Board unanimously condemns Harvard paper denying comfort women abuses after public outcry
Summary
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously adopted a resolution denouncing a Harvard Law School article that questioned historical accounts of wartime sexual slavery. Community groups and dozens of callers urged the board to pass the resolution in full without amendment; supervisors voted 11‑0 in favor.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on April 6 adopted a resolution condemning an article by J. Mark Ramseyer of Harvard Law School that the resolution says minimizes and denies the historical record of the wartime sexual enslavement of women by the Imperial Japanese Army.
Why it matters: The city’s veterans, Asian American and human‑rights groups urged the board to oppose a piece they described as scholarly denialism. Public commenters — including surviving victims and long‑standing…
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