Giant ‘Comfort Women’ poster erected in Times Square

Anna Watanabe – Asian Correspondent – Wednesday, 10 October 2012 (originally published 05 Oct)

Poster asking if you remember Gernab Chancellor promoting reconcillation in 1971 and how in 2012 koreab women are still waiting for an apology,

Japan has yet to apologise to Comfort Women from their occupied territories during World War Two. Image: K-Pop Starz

South Korean singer and well known political campaigner Jang-hoon Kim and Public Relations expert Prof. Kyoung-duk Seo are taking the sensitive topic of Comfort Women to the US.

A poster,asking “Do You Remember?” was erected in New York’s Times Square on Wednesday in an attempt to continue the conversation of Japan’s atrocities in World War 2 overseas. It shows former German chancellor Willy Brandt making his ‘silent apology’ at a Jewish ghetto monument in Warsaw in 1971, and asks the same from Japan.

“In 2012, Korean women forced to work as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during WWII are still waiting for a heartfelt apology from Japan,” it says . . .

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