科学ではない研究が世界的に出現してきていることを正すための
研究広報活動を推進
「一般社団法人国際歴史論戦研究所」会長挨拶
２０２２年４月１日をもって「国際歴史論戦研究所」は一般社団法人となりました。法人化に際して、杉原誠四郎会長は、改めて会の目的とするところを表明しました。
会長挨拶： http://hassin.org/01/wp-content/uploads/iRICH.pdf
英訳文： http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/iRICHE.pdf
この中で特に強調しているのは、今日の世界の歴史研究は、科学としての研究から外れ、研究ならぬ研究が横行しているという実情です。その最たる実例が慰安婦問題です。そもそもいわゆる「従軍慰安婦」、強制連行なるものは、１９８３年に吉田清治という人物が『私の戦争犯罪−朝鮮人強制連行』（三一書房）という架空の物語を書き、それが朝日新聞によって大々的に取り上げたことによって世に出現してきたものです。すでに吉田はそれが作り話であったこを認め、また朝日新聞はこれを取り上げた１６もの記事を全面的に削除しています。
ところが、ハーバード大学のラムザイヤー教授が２０２０年、「太平洋戦争における性サービスの契約」という論文を学術誌に発表するや、韓国、アメリカ、ヨーロッパ、日本を含む世界中の学者、研究者がこの論文撤回を要求するという事態が起こりました。
ラムザイヤー教授は、その後１年間この批判、抗議に対して反論を書き、発表していますが、事実をもとに完膚なき反論となっています。
最後に杉原会長は次の言葉であいさつを締めくくっています。
我々、国際歴史論戦研究所の研究員は、一般社団法人化を契機に、さらに広く世界に視野を向けて、いっそう事実に即したまさに科学としての研究に邁進し、世界人類の平和と発展に尽くしていきます。
令和４年６月１４日 「史実を世界に発信する会」 会長 茂木弘道
Statement by Sugihara Seishiro,
President, International Research Institute for Controversial Histories (iRICH)
The International Research Institute for Controversial Histories (iRICH) became a general incorporated association with the official appellation of “General Incorporated Association International Research Institute for Controversial Histories,” as of April 1, 2022. Taking this opportunity, Mr. Sugihara issued the following statement:
Statement: URL: http://www.sdh-fact.com/opinion-article/1935/
PDF: http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/iRICHE.pdf
He emphasizes that presently, historical studies in the world tend to deviate from the scientific methodology and have become something very different. A typical example is the “comfort women issue.”
The “comfort women problem,” first started by Yoshida Sejji’s book published in 1983, which depicted comfort women “hunting” in Cheju Island. The Asahi Newspaper sensationally and repeatedly published the content of the book, in more than 18 instalments Then, story of “the comfort women” crime, the alleged abduction of Korean women and their sex slave-like treatment, spread all over the world. However, the story was proven to be a total fiction. Yoshida admitted it and in 2014, the Asahi Newspaper deleted all of the 18 articles based on Yoshida’s book.
In 2020, Professor Ramseyer of Harvard University posted a scholarly essay, “Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War,” on the International Review of Law and Economics’ website, in which he clearly stated that comfort women were engaged in sexual services under contract, definitively proving that there was no “forced abduction.” Then, many critics from South Korea, the United States, Europe and Japan, calling themselves scholars, issued a statement asking Professor Ramseyer to withdraw his essay. The number of scholars who joined in the statement demanding the removal of Professor Ramseyer’s essay amounted to 3,665 as of May 11, 2021.
This is an act digressing far from the standards of the scientific study and can no longer be called a study. Those self-proclaimed scholars simply asked for withdrawal of the essay, and did not refer to any facts, neither did they try to refute his arguments. This was not a study concerned with facts. It was not a study by any standards.
Mr. Sugihara closed his statement with the following words:
“We, the researchers of the International Research Institute for Controversial Histories, will look far and wide across the world, make further efforts to continue our study as science, based on facts, and contribute to the promotion of world peace and development of the world for the international citizens.”
MOTEKI Hiromichi, Chairman
Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact