https://pcoo.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/ 2018/04/20180429-Statement-and-Press- Conference-of-President-Rodrigo-Roa- Duterte-upon-his-Arrival-from-Singapore-.pdf Q: Here's another question. May we ask for your views on the removal of the comfort woman statue along Roxas Boulevard?
PRESIDENT DUTERTE: Yes. Whose initiative was it? I really do not know. I don't even know that it exists.
But it has created somehow a bad --- you know. You can place it somewhere else. If you want to place in a private property, fine. But do not use... Because that issue for... insofar as I'm concerned, tapos na 'yan.
The Japanese has paid dearly for that. 'Yung reparation started many years ago. So huwag na lang natin insultuhin. But if there is what you would call a memorial for an injustice committed at one time, it's all right.
But do not use --- it is not the policy of government to antagonize other nation. But if is erected in a private property, fine. We will honor it. And the Japanese government and people would understand it that there is democracy here, freedom of expression is very important.
But do not use government because it would reflect now on --- kung ginusto ba natin. It's practically the same in South Korea,‘yung comfort women. Pero so much water has passed
Masakit kasi ulit-ulitin mo na tuloy. And you start to imagine how they were treated badly. But Japan has apologized to the Filipinos. And they have certainly made much more than... in terms of reparation.