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Reposted by @chairmanxi.bsky.social
Feels flippant to use the term Streisand Effect here, but that's what happened.
Japan ensured a statue very few people would've seen and even fewer would've understood won't be put up, and instead people all over the world are going to read about their system of sexual slavery during WWII.
theguardian.com
New Zealand officials reject ‘comfort women’ statue after objections from Japan
Statue recognising Japan’s sexual slavery of up to 200,000 women in second world war will no longer be erected in Auckland
