A statue representing women who were forced to work in brothels for the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II was unveiled in Tainan on…
A statue representing women who were forced to work in brothels for the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II was unveiled in Tainan on August 14, the first instance of such a statue installed in Taiwan. Former President Ma Ying-jeou, who led Taiwan’s opposition Kuomintang party and served from 2008 to 2016, was present at the unveiling ceremony which was organized by the Tainan City Women’s Human Rights Equality Promotion Association, according to reports from Taiwan’s United Daily News and Liberty Times. The association said that they hoped that current President Tsai Ing-wen, the island’s first female ruler, would pay attention to the statue and see that the Taiwanese families of so-called “comfort women” would receive proper compensation and an apology from the Japanese government.
