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A statue commemorating so-called comfort women is displayed in a residential area in central Berlin. | AP
Jiji Dec 16, 2020
Japan’s Foreign Ministry said Wednesday it will make efforts to realize the removal of a statue symbolizing so-called wartime “comfort women,” displayed in the central Berlin district of Mitte, in a year.
The ministry indicated its stance over the issue at a meeting of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s Foreign Affairs Division, Masahisa Sato, director of the division, told reporters after the meeting.