The ministry has been working on collecting data on the statues honoring "comfort women" — a euphemism ... Germany, Italy and other countries.” The lawmaker called on the ministry to take ...

The two countries signed a landmark agreement on Monday to resolve the "comfort women" issue. Although South Korea did not agree to remove the statue, Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se said Seoul ...

Soon thereafter, a spokeswoman from Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it was “extremely regrettable” that comfort women statues had ... Unlike Hata and other Japanese historians ...

The other is of a man, representing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, kneeling and bowing before the girl. “There are many statues of the little girl (representing comfort women), but I wanted to ...

Surviving women had reacted angrily to Ms Park's 2013 book The Comfort Women of the Empire. Tens of thousands of women from Korea - then a Japanese colony - as well as other parts of Asia were ...

It made the announcement shortly after one of the exhibitions, a statue symbolizing those referred to as wartime comfort women, was closed following controversy. Aichi Governor Hideaki Ohmura ...