Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2019 03:41:33 +0000
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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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 23:27:27 +0000
That the memory was harrowingly showed in the way Dy tightly gripped the microphone during the launch of the “Women and War” exhibit on Feb. 2 at Ayala Museum, where her words echoed across a room filled with mementos, books and photographs of Filipino women’s suffering and resilience during World War II.
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Credit to Author: Kathleen Malay| Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:56:04 +0000
A local marriage tradition in the island of Timor helped these women escape becoming comfort women during Japanese occupation.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2019 07:09:31 +0000
Lila-Pilipina on Tuesday slammed the Japanese government’s protest against a bronze statue of a girl in San Pedro, Laguna.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2019 03:43:20 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang defended a recently inaugurated bronze female statue in San Pedro, Laguna after it drew the ire of the Japanese government, calling it a part of freedom of expression.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jbalboa| Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2018 11:32:06 +0000
The Filipino comfort women, the last living threads that connect the Filipinos to that painful part of history, do not have much time left.
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