Japan exhibition defends pulling ‘comfort woman’ statue, opponents decry censorship

Organisers of a Japanese art exhibition who withdrew a statue symbolising “comfort women” defended their decision on Monday as justified given a crisis in ties between Japan and South Korea and arson threats, but opponents decried it as censorship. The term comfort women is a Japanese euphemism for women, many of them Korean, who were forced to work in Japan’s World War Two brothels. The issue of the women is highly emotive for people in both countries, whose relations remains overshadowed by Japan’s 1910-1945 colonisation of the Korean peninsula.

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