Statue symbolizing former wartime sex slave to return to Japanese art show
Seoul: A South Korean sculpture symbolizing Japan’s sexual enslavement of Korean and Asian women will be put back on display Tuesday at a major Japanese art show in Nagoya after its controversial withdrawal from the show, organizers said. The girl statue representing Korean women who were forced into sexual service for the imperial Japanese military […]
Taiwanese protest after Japanese man kicked comfort woman statue
Dozens of human rights activists rallied outside Japan’s de facto embassy in Taipei on Monday to call on the Japanese government to apologize after a Japanese right-winger was caught on a security camera kicking a memorial statue for “comfort women.” According to local media, members of the Tainan City Women’s Human Rights Equality Promotion Association […]
Russia to build statue of Ivan the Terrible
A monument to Tsar Ivan the Terrible is to be built in the Russian city of Orel 350km south of Moscow, the Moscow times cites TASS report. The monument will be unveiled on 3 August, two days before the 450th anniversary of the city’s founding, the Orel region’s governor Vadim Potomsky told journalists. “He founded […]