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Sink the Asahi! The ‘Comfort Women’ Controversy and the Neo-nationalist Attack

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

David McNeill  and
Justin McCurry
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How did Japan's 135-year-old liberal flagship end up in the crosshairs of neo-nationalists?

Before last year it is doubtful that many Japanese knew the location of Glendale, California – an L.A. suburb with a population of 200,000 known for its large Asian population and the Big Boy fast-food chain. That's changed, thanks to an unimposing bronze statue of a young woman installed last year in a local park that has become a microcosm of the toxic history war between Japan and South Korea.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 13 , Issue 5 , February 2015 , e1
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