Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/08/15
By: Joseph Yeh
Taipei, Aug. 15 (CNA) Taiwan is still pushing Japan to face the “comfort
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women” issue, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said Wednesday, although it said that the unveiling of the country’s first “comfort women” statue in Tainan a day earlier has nothing to do with the government.
A bronze statue symbolizing women forced to work in wartime brothels for the Japanese military was unveiled in the southern city, the first such memorial erected in the country.
Former President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) of the main opposition Kuomintang (KMT), attended the unveiling and made an address, calling on the Japanese government to apologize and compensate the brutalized “comfort women.” He also criticized the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration of being too soft on the issue.
The Tainan City government said the statue was jointly erected by a local nongovernmental organization and the opposition KMT. [FULL STORY]
