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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/glendales-comfort-women-memorial-controversy-symbol-passive-liberalism/"></div>By <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/steph-cha">Steph Cha</a>
Japan — as in the country — has beef with the city of Glendale.
During World War II, the Japanese government forced about 200,000* women and girls into sex slavery to service its Imperial Army, almost all of them taken from Japan’s occupied territories, including, but by no means limited to, Korea. In 2013, Glendale erected a memorial to these comfort women in its Central Park, a bronze statue of a Korean girl sitting next to an empty chair. <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/glendales-comfort-women-memorial-controversy-symbol-passive-liberalism/#more-3658" class="more-link">Read more</a>
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Glendale’s Comfort Women Memorial “Controversy” a Symbol of Passive Liberalism

Steph Cha is the author of Follow Her Home, Beware Beware, and&nbsp;Dead&nbsp;Soon&nbsp;Enough, all published by St. Martin’s Minotaur. She’s the noir editor for LARB and a regular contributor to the LA Times. She lives in her native city of Los Angeles with her&nbsp;husband&nbsp;and&nbsp;basset&nbsp;hound.

Steph Cha

“So Many Stories to Tell”: A Conversation with Maurene Goo

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
— Dr. Seuss

Young Adult &amp; Children’s Literature

At Parties, Hoping Someone Would Bring Up the War of 1812: A Conversation with Damien Ober

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

“Like ‘Winesburg, Ohio,’ but in the Twilight Zone”: A Conversation with Ben Loory

Southern California Gothic: A Conversation with Teka-Lark Lo

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Life Hacks: An Interview with Yumi Sakugawa

"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954

Comics

Riot/Rebellion: The Legacy of 1992

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

The Metaphysical Ukulele

My Ukulele Gently Weeps: Steph Cha Talks to Sean Carswell

Mas Arai-Mania: An Interview with Naomi Hirahara

"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter, eh?" — Dashiell Hammett

Noir

The Gothic Dramarama: On the 200th Anniversary of Charlotte Brontë

The City of No Illusions

Dragging a Frothy Concept Someplace Dark

Sever the Connection

Steph Cha is the author of Follow Her Home, Beware Beware, and&nbsp;Dead&nbsp;Soon&nbsp;Enough, all published by St. Martin’s Minotaur. She’s the noir editor for LARB and a regular contributor to the LA Times. She lives in her native city of Los Angeles with her&nbsp;husband&nbsp;and&nbsp;basset&nbsp;hound.