Bergen County Dedicates Memorial to Comfort Women
Inclement weather moves ceremony inside, but did not deter many from coming out for the dedication.
Despite the fact that the weather moved the dedication of the Comfort Women Memorial indoors, it did not prevent people from coming out to the ceremony. The memorial, sponsored by the Comfort Women Memorial Committee, takes its place in front of the Bergen County Justice Center (Courthouse) beside monuments commemorating the Holocaust, Armenian Genocide, the Irish Great Hunger and African American Slavery. County Executive Kathleen Donovan, calling this memorial "a long time coming," said it was dedicated to comfort women not only from Korea, but from all of the countries so affected. Comfort women were women who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial Armed Forces. According to the Comfort Women Memorial Committee, the …
Toshiaki Haginoya
1:25 am on Sunday, May 19, 2013
I am a Japanese living in Yokohama, Japan. We Japanese hate Koreans because they often conjure up fake stories and with those falsified stories they try to defame Japan. I don’t know exactly what motives drive them to such disparagement. Maybe denying the previous master is part of their culture. Since the U.S is their master today, they are asking the U. S. to punish Japan. Japan annexed Korea … more ›