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The Statue of Peace (Korean: 평화의 소녀상; RR: Pyeonghwaui sonyeosang; Japanese: 平和の少女像, Heiwano shōjo-zō), often shortened to Sonyeosang in Korean or Shōjo-zō in Japanese (literally "statue of girl") [1] and sometimes called the Comfort Woman Statue (慰安婦像, Ianfu-zō), [2] is a symbol of the victims of sexual slavery, known euphemistically as comfort women, by ...
Print/export Download as PDF; ... Comfort Women Peace Statue [14] ... Comfort Women Memorial [19] Constitution Park, Fort Lee, NJ [19]
Pages in category "Monuments and memorials to comfort women" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The statue "Comfort Women" Column of Strength, by sculptor Steven Whyte, is one of nine and the first sculpture placed in a major U.S. city to commemorate the comfort women. [ 4 ] In 2017, in protest of the memorial, Hirofumi Yoshimura—the mayor of Osaka , Japan —dissolved the sister-city relationship between Osaka and San Francisco that ...
Statue of comfort women in Central, Hong Kong. Comfort women – girls and women forced into sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army – experienced trauma during and following their enslavement. [1] Comfort stations were initially established in 1932 within Shanghai, however silence from the governments of South Korea and Japan ...
The monument was initiated by the "Action Group Comfort Women" of the Korea Verband and was unveiled on September 28, 2020. [1] The statue has sparked a discourse on commemorative cultures among local, state, and diplomatic levels. [2] The bronze statue was designed by the South Korean artist couple Kim Eun-sung (b. 1965) and Kim Seo-kyung. [3]
Comfort Woman Statue may refer to: Statue of Peace, a statue in Seoul, South Korea; Filipina Comfort Women, a statue that was erected in Manila, Philippines; San Francisco Comfort Women Memorial, a statue installed in San Francisco, US
The 1,100 pound bronze statue [5] monument is a replica of the original comfort women statue located in Seoul, South Korea. It depicts a girl sitting in a chair, with an empty chair beside her. [ 1 ] The chair represents aging survivors who have not yet received justice, as well as space for people to sit and reflect on how women and girls were ...