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Berlin Mayor Pushes to Cut Funding for Group Supporting ‘Comfort Women’ Statue Amid Japanese Lobbying

Berlin Mayor Pushes to Cut Funding for Group Supporting ‘Comfort Women’ Statue Amid Japanese Lobbying

  SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The mayor of Berlin, Kai Wegner, who has publicly opposed the continued presence of a statue commemorating victims of wartime sexual slavery, known as “comfort women,” has now reportedly exerted pressure to cut funding for the civic group responsible for erecting the memorial, according to local media reports. German [...]