FEATURE: Filipinos torn over preservation of Japanese wartime sex abuse site

MANILA - Efforts to redevelop a historically significant house in the Philippines to memorialize local women abused there by Japanese soldiers during World War II are facing funding and logistical hurdles, raising fears that the structure, and recognition of the atrocities that occurred, could soon be lost.

The French Revival-style "Bahay na Pula" (Red House), built in 1929 in the town of San Ildefonso in Bulacan province north of the nation's capital Manila, was seized by the Japanese Imperial Army during the war.