By japanese military. Melissa kane is at that statue in st. Marys square. Reporter we are here at the comfort Women Memorial in San Francisco. When the statue was unveiled about a month ago this whole area was private land. Because of an unrelated transaction this whole area just became public land. That means that is a public statue and it is an expression of the citizens of San Francisco. That change the facts is what has the mayor of osaka threatening to sever sister city ties with San Francisco. You would say it is just a statue however i think that we can see from all of the stuff going on around statues in the country about the confederacy how important that user. Reporter judith is the president of the comfort women justice coalition. They deny the they flamed women for sex and world war ii claiming that they were not coerced or numbers were very small. This started in 2013. The then mayor of osaka said that it was right to have comfort women. That soldiers needed comfort women.
Thats a long story. Thats not something you can just blow off in a week. Come to find out what that means, and so long story short they got me into walter reed and the kind of came and went for years really trying to kill those stories of wounded warriors. What they were suffering, having performed their duty in our names or a war that was hateful. Thats an interesting balancing act because i try to keep both things alive in a script at the same time. A lot of the best cartooning is investigative. You snuck into Migrant Workers cant. Spin and tell us a little bit about that. I was doing an investigative piece on Migrant Workers who are building the branches of the western cultural institutions. Right now the guggenheim and nyu are all building branches on this place on the island in abu dhabi. Migrant labor has long been incredibly exploded in the gulf. A construction worker might make 200 a month to work for 12 hours a day doing brew physical labor. Is has long been an issue its been