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author: liang youzhi

according to taiwan’s china times news network, on september 18, the only bronze statue commemorating comfort women in taiwan was removed.

photos of the removal of the comfort women memorial statue (china times news)

the report said that the bronze statue is located at the intersection of zhongyi road and zhongzheng road in the west central district of tainan city. it is shaped like a taiwanese comfort woman with both hands resisting. the statue was raised by the tainan city comfort women human rights equality promotion association in 2018. on relevant memorial days, local people will commemorate the victims of the comfort women system during the japanese invasion war.

according to kmt legislator xie longjie, the land where the statue was placed was the property of the kmt tainan city party committee. because the land was liquidated and auctioned, the comfort women statue was removed and transported to a warehouse. xie longjie said that he had called on the tainan city authorities many times before to find a new place for the statue before the land was auctioned, but was not approved.

when the comfort women statue was unveiled in tainan city in 2018, the kuomintang stated that history cannot be forgotten and that the comfort women incident in taiwan did exist. it hoped that the japanese government would face up to the historical facts and make due apologies and compensation to the victims of the war.

however, the then chief cabinet secretary of japan, yoshihide suga, publicly expressed his dissatisfaction, saying that the move made japan "deeply regretful" and that "taiwan's actions are incompatible with the consistent position of the japanese government." the dpp authorities claimed that the erection of the comfort women statue was "a spontaneous action of civil groups" and stated that they would continue to negotiate with japan in the future. in response to this statement, the people on the island criticized the dpp authorities for selectively ignoring the history of taiwanese women being humiliated by the japanese army in order to please japan.