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Comfort Women or Sex Slaves? More Photos from Redwood City Event

by SF Peninsula Report
Leaders of Nadeshiko Action spoke in Redwood City to an audience of San Francisco Area based Japanese reporters last evening. One of their objectives was to get the word out to Japanese living in the US that the building of Comfort Woman memorial statues in Palisades Park, New Jersey and Glendale, California serves only to hurt US/Japan relations and paint Japanese in an unfair light. Outside the event, protesters said the goal of Nadeshiko Action is to whitewash the real history of 200,000 sex slaves in wartime Japan.
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Leaders of Nadeshiko Action spoke in Redwood City to an audience of San Francisco Area based Japanese reporters last evening. One of their objectives was to get the word out to Japanese living in the US that the building of Comfort Woman memorial statues in Palisades Park, New Jersey and Glendale, California serves only to hurt US/Japan relations and paint Japanese in an unfair light. Outside the event, protesters said the goal of Nadeshiko Action is to whitewash the real history of 200,000 sex slaves in wartime Japan.

Top Photo: A member of Veterans for Peace spoke at the Rally outside the Nadeshiko Action event on December 13. He said that many Japanese his organization has been in touch with want peace, and are not happy with PM Shinzo Abe's right wing agenda.

Second photo: A demonstrator's sign says "From Ferguson to Japan Stop Racist Attacks". A member of Nadeshiko quietly studies the signs with interest.
§Sign reads: From Ferguson to Japan Stop Racist Attacks
by SF Peninsula Report
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A member of Nadeshiko Action listens to the views of demonstrators.
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