The Japanese government lodged a protest with local authorities in a central Berlin district after it was decided a statue symbolizing Korean "comfort women" would remain in place for an extra year, the top government spokesman said Monday."This is not acceptable. We have strongly protested it," Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said in a regular news conference.The statue symbolizing Korean women forced to work in Japanese wartime brothels was erected last September in a public space by a pro-South Korean civic group. It was initially planned to stand for only one year.While Tokyo has…READ FULL ARTICLE