The Exhibit Lauded Freedom of Expression. It Was Silenced. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/world/asia/japan-aichi-trienniale.html
>Mr. Abe’s government has been particularly sensitive to the comfort women statues.
>In 2017, his administration recalled its ambassador to South Korea for three months to protest a statue,
>depicting a barefoot young woman in traditional Korean dress sitting in a chair,
>that was placed in front of the Japanese Consulate in Busan, South Korea.
>Last year, the mayor of Osaka, Hirofumi Yoshimura,
>ended his city’s longstanding sister city relationship with San Francisco
>to protest a monument there representing comfort women from Korea, China and the Philippines.
