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JAPAN KEEPS ON TRYING BUT SAN FRANCISCO STANDS WITH THE “COMFORT WOMEN” MEMORIAL Over the past several months, Japan’s Consul General Uyama has been doing overtime lobbying SF Supervisors to…
San Francisco City College Trustees unanimously votes to honor the “Comfort Women” victims and survivors as it celebrated International Women’s Month.
This March 21, 2019 proclamation is the third one honoring the courage of “Comfort women” victims by a city agency in San Francisco Bay Area on the occasion of “International…
CWJC Attends California Council for the Social Studies Conference
CWJC members at the 58th annual California Council for the Social Studies March 15-17,2019 in San Jose. About 600 mainly high school teachers and educators throughout Calif. attended this prestigious…
San Francisco Supervisors Continue To Stand By “Comfort Women” Memorial
Japan’s Consul General Uyama has been doing overtime lobbying SF supervisors to take down the SF “Comfort Women” Memorial. In February 2019, he was busy visiting the new Supervisors of…
San Francisco Honors and Remembers Grandma Kim
San Francisco Board of Supervisors adjourned on February 12 in honor of the late Grandma Bok-dong Kim. Supervisor Gordon Mar worked with CWJC to honor and remember Grandma Kim with…
Osaka Mayor lobbies SF Mayor London Breed about ‘Comfort Women’ statue
Reporter Heather Knight interviewed CWJC Co-Chairs about their continued fight for justice and the vandalism of the memorial. The controversial “Women’s Column of Strength” statue in Chinatown has now been in place…