Japan's Osaka city has finished its "sister city" ties with San Francisco over the showcase of a statue delineating ladies compelled to fill in as sex slaves for Japanese fighters amid World War Two.
Osaka chairman Hirofumi Yoshimura said the "comfort ladies" landmark "wrecked the opposite sides' relationship of trust".
The work portrays three young ladies - from Korea, China and the Philippines - remaining around clasping hands.
It is assessed that about 200,000 ladies were kept in these military houses of ill-repute.
The statue in plain view in San Francisco, which was at first set up secretly however authoritatively acknowledged by the US city last November, is entitled the "Ladies' Column of Strength".
It speaks to the ladies who worked in the massage parlors at the time, including some who were purportedly attracted with the offer of paid work as cooks or cleaners, as indicated by an UN report.
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Mr Yoshimura's choice to end Osaka's sisterhood with the city, which goes back to 1957, was first reported in November, yet the move was deferred following the demise of San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee in December.
Lee was later supplanted by London Breed, the city's first female dark leader.
Mr Yoshimura set out the explanations behind his choice in a 10-page letter to Ms Breed, saying that piece of the "issue" was the landmark's engraving, which he said "presents indeterminate and uneven cases as verifiable actualities".
"There is additionally difference among history specialists while viewing the verifiable realities, for example, the quantity of 'comfort ladies', how much the previous Japanese armed force was included, and the degree of the wartime hurt", his letter includes.
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Picture subtitle The fourth figure (left) speaks to the main lady to stand up about her experience
The full engraving in favor of the statue peruses: "This landmark demonstrates the veracity of the misery of a huge number of ladies and young ladies indirectly called 'comfort ladies', who were explicitly oppressed by the Japanese Imperial military in 13 Asian-Pacific nations from 1931 to 1945."
The landmark likewise incorporates a fourth figure who stands adjacent, portraying an elderly lady intended to be Kim Hak-sun, the principal lady to stand up about her experience amid the Japanese control of Korea amid the war.
A representative for Ms Breed depicted Mr Yoshimura's choice as "deplorable", including: "We will remain sister urban communities by means of the general population to-individuals ties kept up by our San Francisco-Osaka Sister City Committee and their partners in Osaka."
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