SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- It appears simple enough. A new statue has gone up at St. Mary's Square in San Francisco. It depicts three girls looking upwards and an older woman standing nearby. But this ...

Why the bronze figure of a girl in Germany is infuriating the Japanese government. In Berlin, a “Statue of Peace” has angered Japanese officials. It commemorates over 200,000 girls and women from 14 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over a year after the installation of a comfort women statue in Mitte of central Berlin, Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida ...

Despite protest and outrage, a previously removed statue commemorating World War II’s comfort women will be back up in April at a gallery in Tokyo. An exhibition titled “After ‘Freedom of Expression?’ ...

The Korean comfort woman statue in Glendale was unveiled last month, reigniting the conversation about former sex slaves of Japanese soldiers during World War II. Tomorrow, August 15, marks the 68th ...

The monument has stood in San Francisco for a year. It depicts young women from Korea, China and the Philippines standing on a pedestal holding hands, while a statue of Kim Hak-sun, a Korean activist, ...

Statues symbolizing the World War II sex slaves abused by Japanese soldiers have appeared this year on Korean city buses — including on a bus... 'Comfort Woman' Memorial Statues, A Thorn In Japan's ...