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Japanese openly asks for removal of 'comfort women' monument.
What are the Japanese thinking ? Is it total shamelessness or a total lack of guilt or remorse ?
They could have easily just ignored the monument, I doubt it's very well-known but looks like even this small monument is too much for them.
New Jersey Town’s Monument Irritates Japanese Officials
By KIRK SEMPLE
Two delegations of Japanese officials visited Palisades Park, N.J., this month with a request that took local administrators by surprise: the Japanese wanted a small monument removed from a public park.
The monument, a brass plaque on a block of stone, was dedicated in 2010 to the memory of so-called comfort women, tens of thousands of women and girls, many Korean, who were forced into sexual slavery by Japanese soldiers during World War II.
But the Japanese lobbying to remove the monument seems to have backfired — and deepened animosity between Japan and South Korea over the issue of comfort women, a longstanding irritant in their relations.
Authorities in Palisades Park, a borough across the Hudson River from Manhattan, rejected the demand, and now the Japanese effort is spurring Korean groups in the New York region and across the country to plan more such monuments.
“They’re helping us, actually,” said Chejin Park, staff lawyer at the Korean American Voters’ Council, a civic group that championed the memorial in Palisades Park, where more than half of the population of about 20,000 is of Korean descent, according to the Census Bureau. “We can increase the awareness of this issue.”
Korean groups have been further motivated by a letter-writing campaign in Japan in opposition to a proposal by Peter Koo, a New York city councilman and Chinese immigrant, to rename a street in Flushing, Queens, in honor of comfort women. ...........................................................
What are the Japanese thinking ? Is it total shamelessness or a total lack of guilt or remorse ?
They could have easily just ignored the monument, I doubt it's very well-known but looks like even this small monument is too much for them.
New Jersey Town’s Monument Irritates Japanese Officials
By KIRK SEMPLE
Two delegations of Japanese officials visited Palisades Park, N.J., this month with a request that took local administrators by surprise: the Japanese wanted a small monument removed from a public park.
The monument, a brass plaque on a block of stone, was dedicated in 2010 to the memory of so-called comfort women, tens of thousands of women and girls, many Korean, who were forced into sexual slavery by Japanese soldiers during World War II.
But the Japanese lobbying to remove the monument seems to have backfired — and deepened animosity between Japan and South Korea over the issue of comfort women, a longstanding irritant in their relations.
Authorities in Palisades Park, a borough across the Hudson River from Manhattan, rejected the demand, and now the Japanese effort is spurring Korean groups in the New York region and across the country to plan more such monuments.
“They’re helping us, actually,” said Chejin Park, staff lawyer at the Korean American Voters’ Council, a civic group that championed the memorial in Palisades Park, where more than half of the population of about 20,000 is of Korean descent, according to the Census Bureau. “We can increase the awareness of this issue.”
Korean groups have been further motivated by a letter-writing campaign in Japan in opposition to a proposal by Peter Koo, a New York city councilman and Chinese immigrant, to rename a street in Flushing, Queens, in honor of comfort women. ...........................................................
