KMT protests to Japan over comfort women statue issue

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/09/10
By: Ku Chuan and Evelyn Kao 

Taipei, Sept. 10 (CNA) The head of a Tainan-based association promoting the rights of comfort women, along with several Tainan City councilors and legislators of the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) delivered a petition to the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association’s (JTEA’s) Taipei office Monday in a protest over a Japanese man who was spotted appearing to kick Taiwan’s first comfort women statue in Tainan earlier this month.

The petition was accepted by a JTEA official after a scuffle between protesters and police.

A bronze statue symbolizing women forced to work in wartime brothels for the Japanese military during World War II was unveiled Aug. 14, the first such memorial erected in the country, during a ceremony presided over by former President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) in the southern city.

At the ceremony, Ma said that the Act on Promoting Transitional Justice enacted by the Democratic Progressive Party government can be used as a legal basis to demand that Japan apologize and pay compensation, which he said “will be real transitional justice for Taiwan’s comfort women.”    [FULL  STORY]