The Filipina Comfort Women monument in the Manila Bay that was removed in 2018 and later disappeared. Photo: Anson Yu/courtesy of Kaisa
‘Comfort women’ statue missing in the Philippines as Japan’s wartime legacy under focus
- The monument was dismantled by Rodrigo Duterte’s government before a 2018 ADB summit to avoid antagonising Japan, and later ‘stolen’ from the sculptor
- Despite Harvard professor Mark Ramseyer arguing they were paid prostitutes, archives show Japan’s military establishment forced Filipino women to become sex slaves
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The Philippines
The Filipina Comfort Women monument in the Manila Bay that was removed in 2018 and later disappeared. Photo: Anson Yu/courtesy of Kaisa