page_title: Embassy of Japan, Seoul
section_title: Comfort women protests
hierarchical_section_title: Embassy of Japan, Seoul / Demonstrations / Comfort women protests
caption_attribution_description: English: Comfort Women, rally in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, August 2011
context_page_description: The Embassy of Japan in Seoul is the diplomatic mission of Japan in South Korea. It is located in Seoul, South Korea's capital.
context_section_description: Since 1992 the embassy has been a site of weekly  Wednesday demonstrations, related to the comfort women issue. The controversial Statue of Peace, related to the comfort women issue, was unveiled in front of the embassy in 2011, causing another lengthy diplomatic row between Japan and South Korea. In 2012 a Chinese man threw four Molotov cocktails at the embassy to voice his anger over the comfort women issue. In 2015 an elderly South Korean man set himself on fire during a weekly Wednesday demonstration.
caption: A comfort women rally in front of the embassy, August 2011
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