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Japan halts exhibit of South Korea’s ‘comfort women’ statue

August 4, 2019 admin art, bilateral ties, comfort women, Diplomacy, exhibit, Japan, Latest News Stories, sex slave, South korea, war, war time, World

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2019 03:41:33 +0000

South Korean protesters sit near a statue of a teenage girl symbolizing former "comfort women", who served as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II, during a weekly anti-Japanese demonstration in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul on November 21, 2018. - South Korea on November 21 announced the formal shutdown of a controversial Japanese-funded foundation created to help former wartime sex slaves -- a move that will further sour ties between the neighbours. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)

A Japanese exhibition featuring a controversial South Korean artwork depicting a wartime sex slave has been cancelled after threats of violence as bilateral ties between the countries fray.

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