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Japanese Americans who have migrated before the WWII and endured the forced relocation and incarceration during the war and their descendants have expressed a different perspective regarding the issue. While most Japanese Americans have not paid much attention to the issue in the past, the emergence of Japanese right-wing movement in the U.S. in opposition to the \u201ccomfort women\u201d statues and memorials brought the issue into many Japanese Americans\u2019 consciousness, which led to multiple Japanese American groups voicing support for \u201ccomfort women\u201d memorials and opposition to the right-wing Japanese historical revisionism.<\/p>\r\n
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For many Japanese Americans, the victimization of \u201ccomfort women\u201d by the Japanese military and the fact that there has yet to be a formal apology and reparations for the former \u201ccomfort women\u201d evoked their own\r\nexperiences of victimization under the forced internment during the WWII and their struggle for a formal apology and redress from the U.S. government. Historical denial among the Japanese right-wing and some Japanese nationals living in the U.S. felt reprehensible in the eyes of these Japanese Americans.<\/p>\r\n
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At a 2013 public hearing on the plan to build a \u201ccomfort women\u201d memorial in Glendale, California, prominent Japanese American groups including Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress and the local (San Fernando Valley) chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League expressed their support for the proposed memorial. And in March 2014 Japanese American Association of New York cancelled a reservation for a \u201ccomfort women\u201d denial event at its space once they found out about the purpose of the event, forcing its relocation.<\/p>\r\n
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In September 2015, the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco unanimously voted to approve the construction of a \u201ccomfort women\u201d memorial on one of the city parks. For the first time, some Japanese American leaders came out in opposition, citing the concern that the memorial would divide the community. Behind the scene, they were lobbied heavily by the Japanese Consulate General of San Francisco, the City of Osaka, Japan which is a sister city to San Francisco, and Japanese far-right groups such as Nadeshiko Action (deceptively calling itself \u201cJapanese Women for Peace and Justice\u201d in English). Japanese government pressured Japanese American organizations to oppose the memorial by threatening the withdrawal of Japanese government and Japanese national corporate support for important cultural and social service organizations for Japanese Americans, creating serious divisions within Japanese American and Asian American communities. But many other Japanese Americans and Japanese American groups supported the memorial in solidarity with other Asian American communities.<\/p>\r\n