Students gather near a "comfort woman" statue during a rally in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea for a weekly "Wednesday demonstration" on January 11, 2017.

'Comfort Woman' Statue Sparks Diplomatic Row Between Japan And South Korea : The Two-Way The statue in front of the Japanese Consulate, commemorating the plight of Korean women forced by the ...

No sooner had the foreign ministers of Japan and Korea signed their agreement for settling, once and for all, the whole question of exploitation of Korean women as “sex slaves” for Japanese ...

“Comfort Woman” Statue Stokes Old Tensions Between Japan and South Korea She’s a silent reminder of the plight of hundreds of thousands of women forced into sexual slavery by Japan during ...

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - AUGUST 14: Artist Kim Eun-sung and Kim Seo-kyung, who have installed comfort woman statue look around in a bus ahead of the 72nd Independence Day on August 14, 2017 in Seoul ...

Two new statues placed at the Korea Botanical Garden were meant to memorialize a disturbing chapter in Japanese and South Korean history: The abuse of Korean “comfort women,” who for decades ...

The statue symbolizes the estimated 200,000 comfort women forced into sexual slavery to serve Japan’s armed forces during the early 20th century.

Surviving comfort women often protest at the monument, which features a young woman in a traditional Korean dress with a bird on her shoulder sitting next to an empty chair.

Students gather near a "comfort woman" statue during a rally in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea for a weekly "Wednesday demonstration" on January 11, 2017.