Similar fights over memorials to the 'comfort women' have played out elsewhere, including Southern California. But the dispute has special resonance in Germany.
On a quiet street corner in Berlin's Mitte district, a bronze statue of a young girl in a traditional Korean dress glitters in the sun. Her fists are clenched, her expression tense. She is seated but her heels do not touch the ground. A shadow of an elderly woman is carved into the granite below her. Beside her is an empty chair.
Despite the Japanese government submitting an amicus brief in support of the case, the Supreme Court dismissed it in 2017. The following year, the Japanese city of Osaka dissolved its 60-year-old sister city relationship with San Francisco to protest a comfort women monument in Chinatown. Both statues remain. : : The Japanese government has found a far more sympathetic ear in Berlin.
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