By japanese military. Melissa kane is at that statue in st. Marys square. Reporter we are here at the comfort Women Memorial in San Francisco. When the statue was unveiled about a month ago this whole area was private land. Because of an unrelated transaction this whole area just became public land. That means that is a public statue and it is an expression of the citizens of San Francisco. That change the facts is what has the mayor of osaka threatening to sever sister city ties with San Francisco. You would say it is just a statue however i think that we can see from all of the stuff going on around statues in the country about the confederacy how important that user. Reporter judith is the president of the comfort women justice coalition. They deny the they flamed women for sex and world war ii claiming that they were not coerced or numbers were very small. This started in 2013. The then mayor of osaka said that it was right to have comfort women. That soldiers needed comfort women.