San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee on Wednesday signed a document formalizing the city’s acceptance of a statue that symbolizes Korean and other Asian women forced into wartime brothels for the Japanese military, city officials said. The Japanese government had called on Lee not to accept the statue. It appears
San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee on Wednesday signed a document formalizing the city’s acceptance of a statue that symbolizes Korean and other Asian women forced into wartime brothels for the Japanese military, city officials said.
The Japanese government had called on Lee not to accept the statue. It appears certain that the city of Osaka will now dissolve its sister-city affiliation with San Francisco, as Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura had threatened to do unless Lee rejected the motion the U. S. city’s council passed last week to accept the statue.
The statue — of three Chinese, Korean and Filipino girls standing hand in hand — was set up by a local private organization as a memorial honoring the so-called comfort women in San Francisco’s Chinatown area in September.
