Help protect the newly erected “Comfort Women” Statue in Berlin!!

Japan’s Cabinet Secretary Kato pledges the newly installed “Comfort Women” Statue in Berlin be removed!! 

On Monday, September 28, 2020 (local time), Berlin citizens welcomed the Girl Statue symbolizing the hundreds of thousands of women and girls from a dozen countries who were sexually enslaved by Imperial Japan before and during WWII.

This statue has been installed in the Mitte District that is centrally located in Berlin with approval from the local government. A German civic group Korea Verband led this effort to work with the local government. The statue is being received warmly by the German citizens who appreciate the importance of remembering the past crime against humanity to avoid repeating the same mistake.

The Japanese government, in its “HISTORY WAR” to remove the “comfort women” memorials around the world in order to erase the memory of those victims of grave crime against humanity, strongly reacted to the installation and vowed to remove it. As shown in the heavily skewed news report below (Kyodo News), the Japanese government is trying to portray this global human rights violation as merely a Japan-Korea dispute, ignoring all the other Asian and European women and young girls brutally abused by the Japanese military in its state-sponsored sexual slavery system during wartime.

Thank the City of Berlin for installing the “Comfort Women” memorial

Let’s write to the Berlin District Mayor and the District Assembly at the District website HERE to thank them for erecting the “comfort women” memorial in Berlin, and urge them to continue to utilize the statue to educate the public.  Please add your email address and street address to submit your message of support for the “Comfort Women” Statue.  Please let us know if you have any trouble filling out the form. (In Google Chrome browser, the page can be translated into English)

Our efforts to remember the largest case of state-sponsored sexual slavery of the 20th Century will go on.  Your support and participation is crucial in these efforts.  Thank you so much for your support!!

Mainichi report: ‘Comfort Women” statue unveiled in Berlin

Kyodo report: Japan regrets new Korean “comfort women” statue set up in Berlin.