New Zealand officials reject comfort women statue after objections from Japan

Statue recognising Japans sexual slavery of up to 200,000 women in second world war will no longer be erected in AucklandNew Zealand officials rejected on Wednesday an application to install a statue commemorating so-called comfort women enslaved by Japan before and during the second world war after Tokyo suggested it could harm diplomatic relations.Japan forced up to 200,000 women from Korea, China and south-east Asia into sexual slavery from 1932 until 1945 and the issue remains a sore point i...