A new “comfort women” statue pops up in a suburb just northeast of Atlanta as the movement to commemorate the victims continues to frustrate Japanese diplomats.
A statue of Hanako, Japan's best-loved elephant, was unveiled Friday during a ceremony in front of Kichijoji Station in the western Tokyo suburb of Musashino. "The statue is more lifelike than I expected and it is as if I am seeing her again," said Masaru ...
Taiwan's Presidential Office on Wednesday heaped praise on late Japanese civil engineer Yoichi Hatta for his contributions to the island, after his statue was found beheaded over the weekend. Presidential Office spokesman Alex Huang told a news conference that Hatta was an internationally renowned expert ...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a case calling for the removal of a "comfort women" statue in California, ending a three-year legal challenge brought by U.S. plaintiffs supported by the Japanese government. The court's decision not to review the case was ...
The South Korean Foreign Ministry has sent an official letter to a district office in Busan asking that a contentious statue symbolizing the women forced into Imperial Japanese military brothels before and during the war be removed from its spot outside the Japanese Consulate, ...
A civic group on Friday installed a statue symbolizing women forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels in front of the Japanese Consulate in Busan, a move that could strain Japan-South Korea relations. The local ward office had said two days earlier that it ...
A bronze statue of Hachiko, the Tokyo dog celebrated for its faithfulness, has been set up at a pet cemetery in New Jersey. The monument at Abbey Glen Pet Memorial Park is a life-size reproduction of the male Akita dog's statue unveiled last year to ...
The German city of Freiburg has decided not to proceed with a plan to erect a statue of a girl symbolizing so-called "comfort women" who were procured for Japan's wartime military brothels, after encountering strong opposition from its Japanese sister-city Matsuyama, a city spokesperson ...
With its bulging, salmon pink belly, sagging varicose arms and insouciant, jowly sneer, it's hardly Michelangelo's "David." But Donald Trump devotees can brighten up the garden, or scare away burglars, with a naked foam statue of the property magnate and would-be leader of the free ...
A Korean-American group said Wednesday it plans to build in or near Washington, D.C., a statue of a girl symbolizing "comfort women" who were forced into prostitution for Japanese troops before and during World War II — a move that could further strain ties ...
The money Japan promised in the "comfort women" agreement Monday won't be paid unless a symbolic comfort women statue in Seoul is removed.
San Francisco lawmakers voted in September to set up a "comfort women" memorial, becoming the first major U.S. city to plan such a tribute to the women and girls forced to provide sex for soldiers of the Imperial Japanese military. While the decision by the ...
