SEOUL, July 28 — The Japanese government reacted angrily today to a statue in South Korea that appears to depict Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe kneeling and bowing to a “comfort woman,” a euphemism for women forced to work in Japan's wartime brothels. Japan's chief cabinet secretary,...
Tuesday, 28 Jul 2020 01:31 PM MYT
Japan's chief cabinet secretary, Yoshihide Suga, said if reports of the statue on display at a rural botanic garden were true, it would be an “unforgivable” breach of international protocol. Japan regards the matter as “finally and irreversibly resolved” by a 2015 agreement reached by Abe and then South Korean President Park Geun-hye under which Abe apologised and pledged a fund to support the survivors.
Similar statues of girls alone have been set up in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul and at other places to honour the women.
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