so-called comfort women
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Glendale, Calif. ‘comfort woman’ statue vandalized again
September 26, 2019 by Nichi Bei News
LOS ANGELES — A controversial statue in Southern California depicting a hanbok-wearing Korean girl who symbolizes the so-called “comfort women” forced to serve in brothels during Japanese colonization has been […] READ MORE
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‘Comfort women’ exhibit opens in State Bldg. in S.F.
September 13, 2018 by Nichi Bei News
While the subject of so-called “comfort women” continues to cause controversy between Japan and its neighboring countries in Asia, a new photo exhibition recently opened at the California State Building […] READ MORE
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Osaka to end sister-city ties with San Francisco over ‘comfort women
December 21, 2017 by Nichi Bei News
OSAKA — Osaka formally decided Dec. 13 to end its 60-year sister-city ties with San Francisco, in protest against its sanctioning of a statue symbolizing women forced into wartime brothels […] READ MORE
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Osaka-S.F. sister city relationship to end
December 7, 2017 by Nichi Bei News
Following San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee’s formal acceptance Nov. 22 of the memorial dedicated to the so-called “comfort women,” located in the city’s Chinatown, Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura said at […] READ MORE
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U.N. panel calls for revising Japan-S. Korea ‘comfort women’ deal
May 25, 2017 by Nichi Bei News
GENEVA — The U.N. Committee against Torture called on Japan and South Korea to revise their 2015 deal to settle the long-standing row over women who were forced into wartime […] READ MORE
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‘Comfort women’ memorial site selected
June 29, 2016 by Nichi Bei News
A memorial dedicated to the so-called “comfort women” — who were used as sex slaves by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II — has found a home, say […] READ MORE
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Some Japanese in North America puzzled by ‘comfort women’ statue plan
November 5, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
San Francisco lawmakers voted in September to urge the establishment of a “comfort women” memorial, breaking ground by becoming the first major U.S. city to install a statue memorializing […] READ MORE
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