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New Zealand officials reject statue remembering Japan's comfort women

The Japan Times·No Author·about 1 month ago
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WELLINGTON – New Zealand officials rejected on Wednesday an application to install a statue commemorating so-called "comfort women," or women who suffered under Japan’s military brothel system before and during World War II, after Tokyo suggested it could harm diplomatic relations. Thousands of women from Korea, China and southeast Asia are believed to have been forced or coerced into Japan's wartime brothel system from 1932 until 1945 and the issue remains a sore point in Tokyo's relations with its neighbors. The Korean Garden Trust had sought to install a statue honoring the survivors at Barry's Point Reserve in the Auckland suburb of Takapuna. But after public consultation the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board declined an application to install the statue. "This was a difficult decision, and one we did not make lightly," board chair Trish Deans said.…

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