New Zealand ‘comfort women’ statue could jeopardise diplomatic relations, Japan says

Planned statue symbolising the women forced by Japan into sexual slavery during the second world war has raised the ire of Tokyo’s embassy Diplomatic relations between Japan and New Zealand could be jeopardised if a statue symbolising the thousands of women Japan forced into sexual slavery before and during the second world war is erected in an Auckland garden, the Japanese embassy has warned. The bronze statue depicts a seated girl next to an empty chair and was given to New Zealand by the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance, a non-government organisation, to commemorate survivors of wartime sexual violence. Continue reading...

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