{"id":13473,"date":"2012-06-29T04:06:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T04:06:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-06-29T04:06:01","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T04:06:01","slug":"Koreans-Defy-Japanese-With-N-Y--Comfort-Women-Monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=13473","title":{"rendered":"Koreans Defy Japanese With N.Y. \u2018Comfort Women\u2019 Monument"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever since Japanese officials sought the removal of a New Jersey monument commemorating the sexual slavery of Korean \u201cComfort Women\u201d taken by the Japanese army in World War II<\/strong>, Korean-Americans have raced to erect more monuments to bring attention to the women\u2019s plight and to protest what they see as Japanese efforts to deny that the episode occurred.<\/p>\n

Just weeks after the Japanese efforts to remove the monument in Palisades Park, N.J., a Korean-American organization on Long Island has dedicated the first New York monument to \u201cComfort Women,\u201d <\/strong>in Eisenhower Park, Long Island. The Korean publication Newsroh was on hand to photograph the festivities. Below is an excerpt of NewsKann\u2018s article, translated from Korean.<\/p>\n

On June 19, Chul-Woo Lee, a representative of the Korean American Public Affairs Committee, held a press conference and announced that the association has erected a Comfort Women monument on a site in Eisenhower Park, Long Island\u2026<\/p>\n

Lee said that \u201cthe main goal of erecting the monument is to demand an apology and compensation from Japan for Comfort Women<\/strong>, and to make the area around the monument sacred ground to be used for the study of future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lee also vowed that \u201cwe will bring up the question of the trampling of woman\u2019s human rights to the United States\u2019 mainstream,<\/strong> and we will demand an apology from Japan and ask them to solve the problems they created. This strong message will be delivered to pilgrims to the monument.\u201d<\/p>\n

It took only two weeks to erect the monument, an effort made to block any objections from Japan to the monument, said Lee and Sang Won Lee, a secretary-general of the Korean American Public Affairs Committee.<\/strong> The group undertook the job quickly and without delay, even though it usually takes two years to erect a monument.<\/p>\n

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