https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Japan-and-South-Korea-s-latest-row-could-have-deeper-consequences https://internationalviewpoint.org/Japan-and-South-Korea-s-latest-row-could-have-deeper-consequences 2017-04-18T06:29:31Z text/html en Ra Mason Women South Korea Japan <p>Japan and South Korea have reopened an old spat over wartime sexual slavery, or so-called <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-38526914" class="spip_out" rel="external">Comfort Women</a>. The latest flare-up began when a bronze statue of a girl representing former comfort women was installed in front of the Japanese consulate in the South Korean city of Busan. It's triggered an unnecessary, unwanted fiasco that shows no sign of going away.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV507-April-2017-" rel="directory">IV507 - April 2017</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Women-+" rel="tag">Women</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-South-Korea-+" rel="tag">South Korea</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Japan-+" rel="tag">Japan</a>