#205 Archives - Contested Histories https://contestedhistories.org/tag/205/ Practical remedies to disputes over historical markers in public spaces Wed, 08 Dec 2021 11:23:05 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://contestedhistories.org/wp-content/uploads/cropped-CH_Symbol_Light_Bkg@10x-32x32.png #205 Archives - Contested Histories https://contestedhistories.org/tag/205/ 32 32 ‘Comfort Women’ Column of Strength in San Francisco, California https://contestedhistories.org/resources/case-studies/comfort-women-column-of-strength-in-san-francisco?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=comfort-women-column-of-strength-in-san-francisco Sun, 04 Jul 2021 20:40:44 +0000 https://contestedhistories.org/resources// In 2017, a civil society organisation unveiled a San Francisco monument dedicated to the “comfort women,” women compelled to provide sexual services for the Japanese military during World War II. The monument became the centre of an international conflict, with both passionate supporters and fierce critics of the monument and its plaque. Following a flurry […]

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]]> In 2017, a civil society organisation unveiled a San Francisco monument dedicated to the “comfort women,” women compelled to provide sexual services for the Japanese military during World War II. The monument became the centre of an international conflict, with both passionate supporters and fierce critics of the monument and its plaque. Following a flurry of correspondence between government officials in Osaka and San Francisco, the monument led to the termination of the decades-long San Francisco-Osaka sister city relationship.

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