South Korea, too, has been accused of keeping comfort women. “They represent history.”Japan’s position on comfort women has been evolving for decades. Japan promised about $8.3 million to provide medical care and other services to comfort women, and Seoul was asked not to publicly criticize Tokyo over the issue. And now there is a comfort woman statue in San Francisco — the first in a major city in the United States. Mr. Lee, the mayor of San Francisco, urged Mr. Yoshimura, his counterpart in Osaka, not to cut ties in a letter last month, emphasizing that the partnership was between people, not just governments.

Source: New York Times November 25, 2017 20:48 UTC