Japan halts exhibit of South Korea’s ‘comfort women’ statue

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2019 03:41:33 +0000

South Korean protesters sit near a statue of a teenage girl symbolizing former "comfort women", who served as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II, during a weekly anti-Japanese demonstration in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul on November 21, 2018. - South Korea on November 21 announced the formal shutdown of a controversial Japanese-funded foundation created to help former wartime sex slaves -- a move that will further sour ties between the neighbours. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)

A Japanese exhibition featuring a controversial South Korean artwork depicting a wartime sex slave has been cancelled after threats of violence as bilateral ties between the countries fray.

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Heiress pleads guilty in NXIVM sex slave case

Credit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 01:05:57 +0000

Heiress pleads guilty in NXIVM sex slave case

NEW YORK — An heiress pleaded guilty on Friday in a sensational case accusing a cult-like upstate New York group of creating a secret harem of sex slaves for the group’s self-anointed spiritual leader. Clare Bronfman admitted in her plea in federal court in Brooklyn that she harbored someone who was living in the U.S. […]

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South Koreans mourn death of former WWII sex slave

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 06:51:01 +0000

South Koreans mourn death of former WWII sex slave

Hundreds of South Koreans mourned the death of a former sex slave for the Japanese military during World War II during in a rally in Seoul.

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