A Spanish businessman has bought a statue symbolizing women who worked in Japanese military brothels that was removed from an exhibition in Japan after organizers received threats over the piece.
The "Statue of a Girl Of Peace" symbolizes the "comfort women," a euphemism referring to women who worked in wartime brothels, including those who did so against their will, to provide sex to Japanese soldiers.
The work was removed after it attracted "terror threats" via telephone and email as soon as it went on display this month at the Aichi Triennale art exhibition, Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura told a news conference earlier this month.