A statue of a comfort woman placed across from the Japanese embassy in Seoul, with a plaque describing their enslavement during the Japanese occupation, has drawn the ire of the Japanese government.

The statue was set up on the 14th by Japanese-Korean citizens’ groups, which had been vowing to do so. According to YTN News, the Japanese government had been strenuously resisting the statute but was unable to stop it, and has announced through Ambassador Fujimura that “this issue has been fully and finally resolved” (“완전하고도 최종적으로 해결이 끝났다”) and “the Japanese government will not be changing its policy regarding the comfort women issue” (“일본 정부로서는 위안부 문제와 관련한 지금까지의 방침에 어떤 변화도 없다”).