Glendale
City Council
Comfort Women statue issue
Review of
the address to the Glendale City Council meeting in California on October 21,
2014. Here is the transcript:
“I am here
about your statue for the Comfort Women issue that you memorialized in one of
your parks. That statue is being perceived
in the nation of Japan by the people of Japan as an insult and a slight to
their honor.
Now I
understand that your intentions were noble to memorialize the events that took
place from 1932 to 1945. However
recently a new group of Comfort Women have come forward in South Korea claiming
that they were forced by the government to serve from 1950 to 1992. So the City of Glendale has an opportunity
now to demonstrate to the nation of Japan and to the Japanese people your
consistency and that the original statue was not placed there as an insult or
slight to the nation of Japan. So
perhaps you may want to consider placing a second statue for that second group
of Comfort Women.
However then
were does it stop? A second statue, a
third statue, a fourth statue, so that’s an unreasonable request. So perhaps the marble slab next to the
current statue can incorporate the second group of Comfort Women. This way you are memorializing all the
Comfort Women that were forced into this situation as denoted by that statue,
and then you are also demonstrating to the nation and people of Japan that you
are not bashing them it’s not a slight upon their honor that there is
consistency here.
I have
traveled extensively throughout the nation of Japan and I spoke at many
conferences. I’ve authored five books in
Japan with a sixth one coming out next month, and I’m constantly asked by the
people of Japan from middle school students to politicians to surgeons if that
statue is tarnishing the image of Japan in the United States. It’s a very big concern and I try to reassure
them all the time that your image in the United States has not been tarnished.
So you also
have the opportunity to support this to the people of Japan that your
intentions were noble, were consistent and you want to demonstrate further you
consistency. Thank you.”
Link to
video of the address to the Glendale City Council:
Link to
articles in reference to Comfort Women from 1950 through 1992:
Link to
article from the Mayor of Higashiosaka, Japan to the Glendale, California
mayor:
List of
Glendale, California's sister cities:
City of
Glendale's document concerning sister city funding, see page two, next to the
last paragraph:
Link to 1944
U.S. Army document (report number 49) stating comfort women were well-paid
prostitutes:
Link to
Texas Daddy store:
http://texas-daddy.shop-pro.jp/
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1 comment:
Hi Tony.
North korea alleged that over 1,000,000 sex slaves captured by ** United States army **.
What a bad guys! We have to build 5 more statues in Glendale :)
http://www.chosunonline.com/site/data/html_dir/2014/12/04/2014120401379.html
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