Civic Group On Mission to Share Facts, Not Fraud, on Comfort Women Issue Meets Hostility in Berlin.
About 60 activists gathered, hurling tirades of condemnation and some violence at the lawful demonstration by a South Korean civic group.
On June 28, a South Korean civic group spoke to The Sankei Shimbun and JAPAN Forward about its campaign to remove the comfort women statue in Berlin, Germany. Reports of obstructed demonstrations and last-minute cancellation of a scheduled meeting with the city authorities paint an uphill battle.
Journalist Kenji Yoshida accompanied the civic group and reported on the situation in Berlin. Yoshida has been working as a journalist in Seoul and is interested in historical issues between Japan and South Korea, such as the comfort women issue. He arrived in Berlin on June 25 to serve as an interpreter for the civic group leader Joo Oksoon and other members.
The group, calling itself End Comfort Women Fraud, was formed in January 2022, to correct the lies surrounding the comfort women issue.
