'Comfort women' memorial in California

LOS ANGELES, United States - A "comfort women" memorial (far L) -- a bronze statue of a girl in traditional Korean clothing sitting next to an empty chair -- is unveiled at Glendale Central Park near Los Angeles on July 30, 2013. The statue dedicated to women forced into sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese military is a replica of a memorial in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul.

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