Advocates Protest After Japan Files Court Brief Supporting Removal of ‘Comfort Women’ Statue
Glendale is keeping its ‘comfort women’ statue
July 30, 2018
U.S. Supreme Court refuses to review challenge to California ‘comfort women’ statue
July 30, 2018
Advocates for a memorial honoring World War II-era “comfort women” demonstrated last week after the Japanese government filed an amicus brief late last month supporting a lawsuit seeking the memorial’s removal from a Southern California city.
More than two dozen supporters, including former Rep. Mike Honda and former mayor of Monterey Park Betty Chu, gathered on Tuesday at Glendale Central Park, where the monument was installed in 2013, to vocalize their support for the statue, according to organizers.
“This is a very important piece of history that a lot Westerners are not aware of,” Phyllis Kim, executive director of the Korean American Forum of California, the organization that led efforts to install the statue, told NBC News.
