‘Comfort Women’ statue unveiled in SF 

Four bronze women took up their positions in a Chinatown plaza Friday to bear silent witness to the wartime atrocity inflicted on hundreds of thousands of their sisters.

It was the unveiling of the long-awaited “Comfort Women” sculpture in San Francisco’s St. Mary’s Square to honor the Asian women who were forced to become sex slaves by the Japanese army during World War II.

The bronze sculpture by Carmel artist Steven Whyte depicts three young somber Asian women on a pedestal and a fourth, older woman gazing up at them from below. The powerful sculpture sits in the southeast corner of the square, in the shadow of Financial District skyscrapers that seem small by comparison.

The artwork, two years in the planning, remained the subject of controversy even on its unveiling.

(Quoted from SF Gate)