“There are many statues of the little girl (representing comfort women), but I wanted to create ... on Japan-South Korea relations.” A South Korean official involved in foreign diplomacy ...

The Korean government seemingly failed to ... The ministry has been working on collecting data on the statues honoring "comfort women" — a euphemism wartime sexual slavery victims — after ...

These wartime sexual slavery victims are euphemistically referred to as "comfort women." Ismael mentioned the statue again in ...

Soon thereafter, a spokeswoman from Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it was “extremely regrettable” that comfort women statues had ... Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park ...

SEOUL - A South Korean victim of sex slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II died on Sunday, reducing the ...

The girl in the statue was wearing chima jeogori, representing many comfort women from the Korean Peninsula, a former Japanese colony. Showing a split with the prefectural government, Nagoya Mayor ...