Photo Gallery: Japanese delegation requests removal, visits controversial Comfort Women statue

A delegation of Japanese city council members brought a sign that says "Children need heart-warming monuments" to the Comfort Women statue at Central Park in Glendale on Thursday, January 16, 2014. The delegation first delivered a letter to the Glendale city clerk asking this statue be removed because they do not approve of its message.

A delegation of Japanese city council members brought a sign that says “Children need heart-warming monuments” to the Comfort Women statue at Central Park in Glendale on Thursday, January 16, 2014. The delegation first delivered a letter to the Glendale city clerk asking this statue be removed because they do not approve of its message.   (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)

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About a dozen Japanese politicians visited Glendale on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014, calling for the city to remove a monument that honors women taken from Korea, China, the Philippines and other countries to serve as sex slaves by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.

Japanese delegation requests removal, visits controversial Comfort Women statue

Glendale city clerk Ardashes Kassakhian accepts the letter brought to him by a delegation of Japanese city council members asking the Comfort Women statue at Central Park be removed, in Glendale on Thursday, January 16, 2014. The delegation is asking this statue be removed because they do not approve of its message.   (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)

Japanese delegation requests removal, visits controversial Comfort Women statue

A delegation of Japanese city council members, including Kazuko Vematsu, front, brought a sign that says “Children need heart-warming monuments” to the Comfort Women statue at Central Park in Glendale on Thursday, January 16, 2014. The delegation first delivered a letter to the Glendale city clerk asking this statue be removed because they do not approve of its message.   (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)

Japanese delegation requests removal, visits controversial Comfort Women statue

A delegation of Japanese city council members, including Kazuko Vematsu, brought a sign that says “Children need heart-warming monuments” to the Comfort Women statue at Central Park in Glendale on Thursday, January 16, 2014. The delegation first delivered a letter to the Glendale city clerk asking this statue be removed because they do not approve of its message.   (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)

Japanese delegation requests removal, visits controversial Comfort Women statue

A delegation of Japanese city council members brought a sign that says “Children need heart-warming monuments” to the Comfort Women statue at Central Park in Glendale on Thursday, January 16, 2014. The delegation first delivered a letter to the Glendale city clerk asking this statue be removed because they do not approve of its message.  (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)

Japanese delegation requests removal, visits controversial Comfort Women statue

A delegation of Japanese city council arrive at the Comfort Women statue at Central Park in Glendale on Thursday, January 16, 2014. The delegation first delivered a letter to the Glendale city clerk asking this statue be removed because they do not approve of its message.   (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)

Japanese delegation requests removal, visits controversial Comfort Women statue

A delegation of Japanese city council members, including Herumi Yamamoto, brought a sign that says “Children need heart-warming monuments” to the Comfort Women statue at Central Park in Glendale on Thursday, January 16, 2014. Yamamoto spoke to the statue and told it to not sit there any more, to go home because it is too hot for it and that the message she is bringing is wrong. The delegation first delivered a letter to the Glendale city clerk asking this statue be removed because they do not approve of its message.   (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)

Japanese delegation requests removal, visits controversial Comfort Women statue

Glendale city clerk Ardashes Kassakhian, right, gives a book about Glendale to delegation of Japanese city council members before they visited the controversial Comfort Women statue at Central Park in Glendale on Thursday, January 16, 2014. The delegation, who delivered a letter to Kassakhian, is asking this statue be removed because they do not approve of its message.   (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)