Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2018-09-11
A Japanese visitor was caught on camera kicking a statue dedicated to the memory of
Foreign ministry spokesperson Andrew Lee appears in this CNA file photo.
Taiwan’s “comfort women” in the southern city of Tainan earlier this month. Foreign ministry spokesperson Andrew Lee said Tuesday that his office will continue to communicate with Japan to call on the country’s nationals to respect the history of Taiwanese “comfort women.”
During World War II, hundreds of thousands of women were forced to work in Japanese military brothels. The so-called comfort women included over 2,000 from Taiwan. Japan’s government under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been accused of denying or downplaying the country’s wartime human rights abuses. [FULL STORY]