BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 21: The statue of a girl symbolizing 'comfort women' is seen in front of the Japanese consulate-general on February 21, 2017 in Busan, South Korea.

The statue in front of the Japanese Consulate, commemorating the plight of Korean women forced by the Japanese to work as sex slaves during World War II, has prompted Japan to withdraw its ambassador.

statue of a girl symbolizing the issue of 'comfort women' in front of the Japanese Embassy on December 28, 2015 in Seoul, South Korea. Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images ...

Japan is recalling its ambassador to South Korea in response to the placing of a comfort-woman statue in front of its consulate in the Korean city of Busan.

Korean activists have erected girl statues symbolizing victims of Japan’s wartime sex slavery near Japanese missions here, but Japan claims they are not located appropriately. Tokyo has asked ...

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Japan and South Korea clash on many details about the history of comfort women. Osaka mayor Toru Hashimoto made a remark in May that Japan’s use of some 200,000 comfort women during WWII was ...

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Attacks on ‘comfort women’ heralded the violent far right seen today in Korea, ... members of this group have been performing what they call the “comfort woman statue removal challenge.” ...

Japan is recalling its ambassador to South Korea, the latest sign that relations between two of the strongest U.S. allies in the Pacific have fallen back into acrimony after a landmark deal in ...