Daily News | Philadelphia Art Commission approves ‘comfort women’ statue to honor Korean women victimized during WWII
has voted to approve a proposed statute honoring so-called Korean “comfort women” who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Army during World War II.
The statue is meant to draw attention to how the Japanese Imperial Army forced Korean women into brothels from the early 1930s through the end of World War II in 1945. “Comfort women” was the euphemism the Japanese army used to refer to the women., with eight of the nine commissioners voting in favor of its construction .
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