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South Korea’s ‘comfort women’ statues featuring PM Abe ‘lookalike’ spark anger in Japan | South China Morning Post

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Japan reacted angrily on July 28, 2020, to a pair of newly erected statues in South Korea. One of the statues appears to depict Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe kneeling and bowing to a “comfort woman”. The term refers to women mainly from Korea, but also the Philippines, China and other East Asian countries who w…

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