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Osaka to cut ties to San Francisco over ‘comfort women’ statue
- mankash666 9y agoThey'd rather break ties than acknowledge history. Much like Holocaust denial in the Muslim world/middle East [1] [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial
- lern_too_spel 9y agoOr the Lost Cause movement of the American South.
- madez 9y ago> They'd rather break ties than acknowledge history. I don't read it that way. Why does the statue stand in San Fransisco? Did the thing it stands for happen there? What is the connection? If there is none, then it seems rather provocative to put it there, and then decline talks about it.
- evgen 9y agoPerhaps because San Francisco has a decently-sized Korean population who would like a memorial that acknowledges what was suffered since there is no way the Japanese are going to own up to the events? Why put Holocaust memorials in places like the US or UK when it did not happen there? And quite frankly, if it provokes some sort of response one way or the other from Japan then that is a good thing.
- lern_too_spel 9y agoIt's in Chinatown. It's for the Chinese population, some of whom were also affected.
- mc32 9y agoTrue --but "Chinatown" is mostly has greater Hong Kong ancestry and most of the Japanese WWII effort happened in northern China and Manchuria whereas the statue is a memorial to the struggle of Korean women. So it's there more to be provocative and political. Not that Japan isn't being too prickly on the subject, but also SF does not have a large Korean community like LA or NYC/Queens.
- lern_too_spel 9y agoWhere did you get that the statue is a memorial to the struggle of Korean women? It depicts women of multiple countries. The problem of comfort women wasn't restricted to Korea. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women#China https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women#China
- draw_down 9y agoIgnominious.