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For the second time in just months, vandals struck at the Comfort Women Memorial in Glendale near Los Angeles, reports the Los Angeles Times. The Korean American Forum of California erected the statue in 2013 to draw attention to the forced sex slavery of women by the...

An appeal has been filed by a group that waged an unsuccessful bid in federal court to have the comfort women memorial in Glendale, California removed, reports Courthouse News Service. A group known as the Global Alliance for Historical Truth  along with its president Koichi Mera and Michiko Shiota Gingery...

A lawsuit aiming to get rid of the comfort women memorial in Glendale near Los Angeles has been rejected by a federal judge, reports the Japan Times. U.S. Central District of California Judge Percy Anderson ruled the memorial does not violate the constitution. “Glendale’s placement of the Comfort Women monument in...

The Glendale News Press has named the California city's  comfort women statue (photo by Melissa Wall) its newsmaker of the year. The statue has taken on a life of its own with conservatives in Japan calling for its removal and Korean Americans on the West Coast hoping to convince other...

A letter from the mayor of Glendale, CA to its sister city in Japan is bringing to the surface a deep rift caused by the city's recently installed memorial to comfort women, reports the Los Angeles Times. Mayor Dave Weaver sent a letter to the mayor of Higashiosaka expressing his...

A memorial to comfort women may be built in Glendale Central Park in the city of Glendale, CA, reports the LA Daily News, It would be the first such memorial on the West Coast. . The other is in Palisades Park, New Jersey and another is being considered Ft. Lee,...

A woman forced into sexual slavery during World War II and who dedicated her life to bringing attention to Comfort Women just like herself has died at the age of 93. The Straits Times reports Kim Bok-dong died of cancer in a South Korean hospital Monday. She took...

A resolution putting the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in support of a memorial to comfort women appears headed for passage. Rafu Shimpo reports the resolution by Eric Mar has eight sponsors on the 11 member board. Such memorials have been erected in other cities in the United States. They have...

For years, controversy over memorials to World War II-era comfort women has driven a wedge between Korean and Japanese immigrants communities across the country. Now a city in Michigan has entered the fray by installing a statue commemorating the comfort women, reports the Korea Times. After years of planning and fundraising, the...

  Two former comfort women visiting Los Angeles offered declarations of support for the controversial comfort women memorial in Glendale, reports KPCC (photo by Melissa Wall). "Thank you for erecting the peace monument and thank you for trying to protect the peace monument," Il-Chul Kang said. The monument has been challenged...

Yet another Comfort Women memorial has gone up in the United States, reports the Washington Post (photo from Fairfax County, VA Facebook page). A dedication ceremony was held Friday night at the Fairfax County Government Center in Virginia, not far from the Nation's Capitol. Similar memorials have gone up in Palisades...

A blog posted in Forbes wonders whether a law firm stooped to a new low when it accepted a lawsuit trying to prove comfort women forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army were really prostitutes (photo by Melissa Wall). Eamonn Fingleton makes a comparison to the Jewish holocaust...

A coalition of Asian American civic groups gathered on International Women's Day to criticize a lawsuit demanding the removal of the Comfort Woman Statue in Glendale, California, reports Hankyoreh (photo by Melissa Wall). The groups made up of Korean Americans, Filipino Americans, Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans also demanded a...

The group Global Alliance for Historical Truth and two of its members are suing the City of Glendale, CA in a bid to get the removal of the comfort women memorial there, reports the Global Post.(photo by Melissa Wall) "We think this event is a serious problem to Japan and...

The controversial comfort women memorial in Glendale CA that officials from Japan have demanded be removed is being supported by the local chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League. (photo by Melissa Wall) Rafu Shimpo is reporting the San Fernando Valley chapter issued a statement saying: “As Japanese Americans whose grandparents...

A petition on the White House's own website demanding the removal of the controversial comfort women memorial (photo by Melissa Wall) in Glendale, California has surpassed 100,000 signatures, reports the Korea Herald. Many in Japan and some in the Japanese American community contend the comfort women held by the Japanese...

Three elected officials from Japan visiting Southern California demanded that the city of Glendale remove its Comfort Women memorial, reports Al Jazeera. The three – Hiromu Nakamaru, Yuzuru Nishida and Mio Sugita-- are  all from the country’s conservative Restoration party. “They asked, ‘Why is a third country involved in this issue,’...

Opposition to the comfort women memorial in Glendale, CA has come primarily from Japan, but a significant number of Japanese Americans have come out against it too, according to Gwen Muranaka, English Editor of  the bilingual newspaper, Rafu Shimpo. Her fear is that years of friendships between the Korean American...

A memorial dedicated to comfort women who say they were enslaved for the sexual gratification of the imperial Japanese army in World War II will go up Tuesday in Glendale, CA, reports NPR. The sculpture, the first of its kind on the West Coast, has deeply divided many in the...

Opposition from Japan has successfully blocked a decision from the City Council in Buena Park near Anaheim about whether to build a memorial to comfort women, reports the Arirang News. A vote had been scheduled for this week but was delayed when the Council received a letter of protest from...