Statue of Peace

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The Statue of Peace (Korean: 평화의 소녀상; Japanese: 平和の少女像), often shortened to Sonyeosang in Korean or Shōjo-zō in Japanese (literally "statue of girl") and sometimes called the Comfort Woman Statue (慰安婦像, Ianfu-zō), is a symbol of the women forced into sexual slavery—known euphemistically as comfort women—by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces before and during World War II—specifically, the period from the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War until the end of the Pacific War. The Statue of Peace was first erected in Seoul to urge the Japanese government to apologize to and honour the victims. It has since become a site of representational battles among different parties.

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