December 26, 2017

A prominent member of the Chinese-Filipino community and anticrime advocate has written Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano and Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada to question the government’s stand on the installation of a “comfort woman” statue on Roxas Boulevard and its seeming subservience to the Japanese government.

Teresita Ang See wrote the letter after the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), in response to a complaint from the Japanese Embassy, asked Manila officials to explain why the statue was put up.

For its part, the city government said it merely provided a place for the statue on top of technical support. It pointed to the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) as the agency responsible for its installation.

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