Japan withdrew its ambassador to South Korea Friday over a statue symbolizing “Comfort women” was placed outside the Japanese embassy in Busan. The incident is just the latest in the decades-long dispute over Japan’s use of South Korean sex slaves in wartime Japanese military brothels. The 5-foot-tall bronze statue depicting a “comfort woman,” the euphemism long used to describe the women forced t
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