Ongoin Archives - Contested Histories https://contestedhistories.org/tag/ongoin/ Practical remedies to disputes over historical markers in public spaces Fri, 26 Jan 2024 14:56:37 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://contestedhistories.org/wp-content/uploads/cropped-CH_Symbol_Light_Bkg@10x-32x32.png Ongoin Archives - Contested Histories https://contestedhistories.org/tag/ongoin/ 32 32 Filipina Comfort Women in Manila https://contestedhistories.org/resources/case-studies/filipina-comfort-women-in-manila?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=filipina-comfort-women-in-manila Mon, 12 Feb 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://contestedhistories.org/resources// Filipina Comfort Women was a statue erected on 8 December 2017 along Baywalk, Roxas Boulevard, in Manila. The contestation began days after the statue’s installation with a request for background information by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). Japanese Minister for Internal Affairs and Communication Seiko Noda later regretted the statue’s installation by Philippines President […]

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]]> Filipina Comfort Women was a statue erected on 8 December 2017 along Baywalk, Roxas Boulevard, in Manila. The contestation began days after the statue’s installation with a request for background information by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). Japanese Minister for Internal Affairs and Communication Seiko Noda later regretted the statue’s installation by Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte. In April 2018, the statue was taken down and then moved to its artist Jonas Roces’s studio in Antipolo, Rizal. In August 2018, the artist reported the statue as stolen.

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