One statue is of a girl sitting on a bench representing women forced to ... “There are many statues of the little girl (representing comfort women), but I wanted to create a statue of a ...

Soon thereafter, a spokeswoman from Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it was “extremely regrettable” that comfort women statues had been erected. In reality, the extent of Japan’s ...

The ministry has been working on collecting data on the statues honoring "comfort women" — a euphemism wartime sexual slavery victims — after a bill was submitted on punishment for acts of ...

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 of Tokyo's embassy in Seoul. The bronze of a ...