By I wonder if this will get any notice in the Korean media:
About 100 people from Japan and South Korea
attended the unveiling Sunday of a cenotaph commemorating wartime sex slaves mainly from the Korean Peninsula forced to serve Japanese soldiers on Okinawa’s Miyako Island.
The stone monument
The monument was erected by researchers from Japan and South Korea as well as local residents.
Hirotoshi Yonaha, a 75-year-old islander, provided land for the site of the monument. As a boy during the war, Yonaha interacted with the women and gave them red pepper.
“I feel a responsibility to pass down the situation of the tragic war and the presence of the comfort stations,
This is a state built memorial, does anyone know if there is a national memorial built in Japan?
9:22 pm on September 8th, 2008 1
Comfort Woman Memorial Opens on Okinawa…
The stone monument bears inscriptions in 12 languages. The inscription in English reads, “We remember the suffering of the individual women who were subjected to sexual violence by the Japanese military, lament the victims of wartime sexual violence …
8:39 pm on September 8th, 2008 2
Correction. Most of the comfort women were Japanese, next Koreans.
4:25 am on May 25th, 2010 3
Okinawans have been colonized first by Japan and then by Americans so they have more sympathy for the oppressed Korean people. Also, most Okinawans want the US Armed Forces to leave their country.
1:05 pm on July 25th, 2011 4
Why wouldn’t it get attention in the Korean media? The main organizer who instigated the building of this memorial is Yoon Chung-ok, who is a Professor emeritus from Korea. She brought attention to the issue of the comfort women in the first place. There were articles on this memorial in the Korea Times and Joonang Daily.
Most of the women were Korean, next Chinese. The Japanese government primarily sought 17 year old virgins.