SEOUL (Reuters) - One test of the commitment by Japan and South Korea to resolve the "comfort women" issue may be the fate of a statue in front ... nations normally do," said a former Japanese ...

The statue, which commemorates the "comfort women" of World War II, has embroiled the local government in a minor diplomatic controversy. A South Korean court's recent ruling is likely to further ...

SEOUL--A pair of statues erected in an idyllic botanical garden in South Korea look set to reignite a furor with Japan ... comfort women), but I wanted to create a statue of a responsible person ...

The statue symbolizing a Korean "comfort ... Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, said, "The statue of the girl has become something like common property which our group cannot do ...

The Park government also agreed to begin discussions on removing a controversial private comfort-woman statue that is located in front of the Japanese embassy in downtown Seoul. In a region where ...

She is seated but her heels do not ... the statue is a poignant tribute to the 200,000 so-called comfort women who were forced or tricked into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese military ...