Photo Gallery: Comfort Women Memorial unveiling in Glendale
Before a standing room only crowd of about 300 people, officials hailed the monument to so-called “comfort women” as a lasting testament to the pain and suffering endured by an estimated 200,000 sex slaves from Korea, China, Indonesia and other occupied countries during the war. The statue had been strongly opposed by Japanese nationalists who, despite the historical record, insist comfort women were acting on their own accord as prostitutes.
