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All posts tagged "comfort women"

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  [CNN] Time for Abe to apologize, properly

      In 1944, 16-year-old Yong Soo Lee of Taegu, Korea, was lured by a friend of hers to meet with an older Japanese man. The man took the two of them, and three other teenage...

  • Posted April 28, 2015
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  DC Korean Americans to stand in protest against Abe in a call for apology

  By The Korea Times Washington DC staff The Korean American community in Washington, D.C., have gathered this week to request a long-ignored apology from visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who will meet President Barack Obama Tuesday...

  • Posted April 28, 2015
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  LA Korean American orgs to greet Japanese PM Abe with silent protest

  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be met with a silent protest by Southern California’s Korean American organizations upon his visit to Los Angeles May 1. The Korean American Forum of California said Saturday that a group...

  • Posted April 27, 2015
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  [WaPo] 70 years later, a Korean ‘comfort woman’ demands apology from Japan

  Seated on a sofa in an embroidered silk costume, Yong Soo Lee is a study in grim dignity. She is 86 now, and the story of her long-ago wartime ordeal emerges slowly and hesitantly...

  • Posted April 23, 2015
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  Early plans for comfort women statue launched in Maryland city

  A comfort women statue, the latest among many installed or planned around the United States, may be headed toward Ellicott City, Maryland. If passed through city procedures, the memorial to commemorate sexual slaves taken by Japanese soldiers...

  • Posted April 15, 2015
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  Pelosi urges Abe to apologize over wartime sex slavery

  SEOUL, April 2 (Yonhap) — Nancy Pelosi, the U.S. House minority leader, called on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Thursday to apologize for the sexual slavery of Korean and other Asian women during World War II. “We...

  • Posted April 2, 2015
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  US newspaper ad to urge Abe to apologize for wartime sexual slavery

  WASHINGTON, March 17 (Yonhap) — A full-page advertisement will appear in a U.S. newspaper this week to urge Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to apologize for the country’s sexual enslavement of women for its troops during World...

  • Posted March 17, 2015
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