Comfort Women Statue San Francisco
The mayor of osaka japan at the time hirofumi yoshimura protested the.
Comfort women statue san francisco. San francisco has officially accepted a statue representing the comfort women forced to work as sex slaves for japanese soldiers during world war two. The work depicts three young women from. Yoshimura and his predecessor objecting to the statue it was unveiled in downtown san francisco on sept.
And now there is a comfort woman statue in san francisco the first in a major city in the united states. In 2015 the san francisco board of supervisors unanimously passed a resolution to build a memorial to the comfort women in the city and to educate the community about stopping human trafficking of women and girls. San francisco and osaka have been sister cities since 1957.
Osaka s mayor hirofumi yoshimura terminated official ties this week after the us city agreed to recognise the comfort women statue which was erected by a private group last year in san. This memorial statue named women s column of strength was installed in 2017 and represents the young girls and women taken from china korea and the philippines during wwii and enslaved in japan. Last friday a statue memorializing the comfort women of the imperial japanese army was unveiled in san francisco s chinatown.
22 2017 the first such statue in a major city in the. The relationship is meant to. But a new statue in san francisco has angered osaka officials and endangers the cities long friendship.
In march the supreme court declined to review a case in which the plaintiff sought the removal of a. It is built in remembrance of the girls and women that were sexually enslaved by the imperial japanese army through deceit coercion and brutal force. Comfort women monuments installed in the united states have sparked a similar backlash.
An important statue for comfort women in san francisco by sally mcgran e october 12 2017 though completed san francisco s memorial to those imprisoned as sex slaves by japan during the second.