News Briefing Sep-Oct 2021
2021년 11월 16일News Briefing (Sep-Oct 2021)
Kishida, who spearheaded the 2015 “comfort women” agreement as then foreign minister, became the 100th prime minister of Japan. The Berlin District Office decided to keep the Berlin Statue of Peace for another year after continued efforts of civic groups and citizens, yet Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said that the government will continue to seek the statue’s removal, saying, “This is not acceptable. We have strongly protested it.” “There are multiple cases in which attempts (to install statues) ended after we took various actions to gain people’s understanding.” Meanwhile, the New York Times published the obituary of Kim Hak-soon and artworks remembering victim-survivors’ stories were published around the world. The Wednesday Demonstration finally has participants on site due to the lifting of COVID19 restrictions, but the revisionists who stage anti-protest threaten to take over the site and spread hate speech, calling for our solidarity!
📌 Victim-survivors’ stories & Remembrance
Overlooked No More: Kim Hak-soon, Who Broke the Silence for ‘Comfort Women’
“Comfort Women” Project centers survivors of sexual violence at 1100 Florence Gallery
Filipino’s book tackles trauma of “comfort women” during WWII
📌 Berlin Statue of Peace
Japan protests Berlin district ‘comfort women’ statue extension
📌 Revisionist attempts
Shouting matches plague site of girl’s statue as rallies resume under eased distancing rules
Repeated distortions of history