THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
August 15, 2019 at 16:35 JST
Lee Yong-soo, a former “comfort woman,” with a new statue of a Korean girl set up in Seoul to symbolize comfort women on Aug. 14. (Takuya Suzuki)
SEOUL--As South Korea marked memorial day for "comfort women" on Aug. 14, President Moon Jae-in made a point of not taking Japan to task over the issue that has severely strained bilateral ties. [Read More]
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