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Latest Comfort Women Statue in U.S. to Go Forward Despite Japanese Opposition

Latest Comfort Women Statue in U.S. to Go Forward Despite Japanese Opposition

GEORGIA, AMERICA Jun. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite strong Japanese opposition, with one senior Atlanta-based Japanese diplomat implying the victims of Japan’s wartime sex slavery were ‘paid prostitutes’, the latest statue in memory of the so-called comfort women is set to be unveiled Friday in the city of Brookhaven, Georgia. It’s the third statue to [...]

Statue Remembering Korea’s Comfort Women Erected in Germany

Statue Remembering Korea’s Comfort Women Erected in Germany

WIESENT, Germany, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) – A statue of a girl symbolizing victims who were sexually enslaved by Japanese troops during its occupation of the Korean Peninsula (1910-45) was erected in Germany’s southeastern municipality of Wiesent on Wednesday.  The erection ceremony of the “comfort women” statue was held at the Nepal Himalaya Pavillon, a [...]