history is well established by korean, chinese, japanese sources as well as european and filipino and othern. sources. there is no doubt that over 1 or 200 thousand women were forced into sexual slavery by the japanese military and contractors. confronting the truth and openly discussing the past is the best way to avoid repeting the past and together building a better fuper for all people. this statue honors the suffering of innocence and is one step towards closure and moving on to better mutual fuch frr all people. one of the reasons that i'm here is because the japanese peace movement raiched out to veterans for peace and asked us to support them in speaking out against the militarization of japan and deninel of wrk w 2 war crime squz the comfort women issue. polls in japan show the peace movement has majority of support even though the right wing in japan has the big money. this isn't about japan bashishing or bashing japanese, this is about working with counter parts in japan working for peace for all. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> my name is martha hobert and i'm

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history is well established by korean, chinese, japanese sources as well as european and filipino and othern. sources. there is no doubt that over 1 or 200 thousand women were forced into sexual slavery by the japanese military and contractors. confronting the truth and openly discussing the past is the best way to avoid repeting the past and together building a better fuper for all people. this statue honors the suffering of innocence and is one step towards closure and moving on to better mutual fuch frr all people. one of the reasons that i'm here is because the japanese peace movement raiched out to veterans for peace and asked us to support them in speaking out against the militarization of japan and deninel of wrk w 2 war crime squz the comfort women issue. polls in japan show the peace movement has majority of support even though the right wing in japan has the big money. this isn't about japan bashishing or bashing japanese, this is about working with counter parts in japan working for peace for all. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> my name is martha hobert and i'm