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The issue of comfort women and the Statue of Peace has inspired other such monuments to be built in Seoul and in cities around the world with sizeable Korean populations. The Column of Strength, a comfort women statue in San Francisco, is the first in a major U.S. city. After the statue was revealed, Osaka, Japan ended its decades-long sister-city relationship.In May 2012, officials in Koreatown, Palisades Park, New Jersey, rejected requests by two diplomatic delegations from Japan to remove a small monument from a public park, a brass plaque on a block of stone, dedicated in 2010 to the memory of the comfort women. Days later, a South Korean delegation endorsed the borough's decision. However, in neighboring Koreatown, Fort Lee, various Korean American groups could not reach a consensus on the design and wording for such a monument as of early April 2013. In October 2012, a similar memorial was announced in nearby Hackensack, New Jersey, to be raised behind the Bergen County Courthouse, alongside memorials to the Holocaust, the Great Irish Famine, Slavery in the United States, and the Armenian genocide, and it was unveiled in March 2013.
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