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JAPAN
Sep 19, 2019
California police investigating after 'comfort woman' statue vandalized for second time this summer
A controversial statue in Southern California depicting a hanbok-wearing Korean girl who symbolizes "comfort women" has been defaced for the second time this summer, according to police.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 13, 2019
Wartime laborer statue removed from near Japanese Consulate in Busan
A controversial statue erected close to the Japanese Consulate in Busan to symbolize Korean laborers forcibly taken to Japan during the colonial era is removed.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 28, 2019
Back in blue: Restoration of Nagasaki's famous Peace Statue marking atomic bombing begins
A statue commemorating the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki began undergoing restoration Monday, with the city hoping to unveil it in its original blue in late March ahead of the August anniversary of the attack.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 30, 2018
Statue of forced Korean laborers may be placed near Japanese Consulate in Busan
A statue symbolizing forced Korean workers taken to Japan during its colonial rule may be erected Tuesday in front of the Japanese Consulate General in Busan, South Korea's second-largest city.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 22, 2017
After 45-year wait, repairs declared finished on all 1,001 bodhisattva statues at Kyoto sightseeing spot
Preservation and repair work has been completed on all 1,001 statues of 1,000-armed Kannon bodhisattva at Kyoto's Sanjusangendo Hall, ending a 45-year wait.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Aug 17, 2017
Baltimore 'quickly and quietly' removes four Confederate statues after deadly Virginia rally
Baltimore removed four monuments to the pro-slavery Civil War Confederacy before dawn on Wednesday, working quickly so the city could avoid protests like the one organized by white nationalists that turned deadly in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 13, 2017
You keep the money, we keep the statues: Ban
Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a potential presidential candidate, rebuffs Tokyo's demand to remove the “comfort women” statues, saying the wartime issue is about more than money.
JAPAN
Feb 28, 2013
Japan to demand that South Korea return stolen Buddhist statues
The government will demand that South Korea swiftly return two Buddhist statues that were stolen last year from a temple on the Nagasaki Prefecture island of Tsushima.

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