[Photo] Civil rights icon Jesse Jackson visits comfort woman statue in New York City

The Rev. Jesse Jackson paid a visit to the comfort woman statue in New York City and posed for a commemorative photo on Feb. 26. The statue was erected last October at the Museum of Korean-American Heritage in Manhattan, and is a replica of the statue that was placed across from the site of the Japanese embassy in Seoul. Jackson’s visit came on the same day as new evidence surfaced showing that a number of comfort women were shot by the Japanese military in China near the end of World War II.