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Despite protests from Japanese Americans, the Glendale City Council has approved a memorial to comfort women at Glendale Central Park, reports the Press-Telegram. Koreans have long contended that 200,000 women of Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, Filipina and Dutch descent were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War...

  The city of Glendale in California has voted to erect a "peace monument" for comfort women in Glendale Central Park, reports Hankyoreh. It will be identical to one in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul. Glendale's former mayor was in Korea this week to gather information for the project. Frank Quintero...

After 32 years as a judge in San Francisco, Lillian Sing officially retires today. Crienglish, however, reports she won't be retiring her passion of making a difference. The first Chinese American woman judge says she will devote her time to fighting for compensation for comfort women and lobbying the city of...