Memorial for 'comfort women'

Memorial for 'comfort women'

NEW YORK, United States - Kathleen Donovan, executive of Bergen County, New Jersey, on March 8, 2013, shows a photo of a monument built at a county courthouse to honor the women forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese military during World War II.

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