The Japan Times
Date: Aug 18, 2018
Members of a Taiwanese NGO rally outside the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association in Taipei Tuesday to demand that the Japanese government apologize to Taiwan’s ‘comfort women.’ | AFP-JIJI
TAIPEI – Japan’s de facto embassy in Taiwan has requested the removal of a statue in Tainan symbolizing the “comfort women,” officials said Friday.
The Taipei office of the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association asked officials of the Kuomintang, Taiwan’s biggest opposition party, to take “appropriate” action over the statue, which was installed with the party’s support, association officials said.
The term comfort women refers to the masses of girls and women, many of them Korean, who were forced to provide sex for Imperial Japanese troops before and during World War II.
Taipei office head Mikio Numata, Japan’s de facto ambassador to Taiwan, met on Wednesday with former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou, who attended the statue’s unveiling ceremony on Tuesday, and with Kuomintang chief Wu Den-yih on Thursday. [FULL STORY]