The New York State Assembly has recently passed a resolution calling for the respect of a monument honoring the victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery.

The resolution is similar to a resolution the New York State Senate passed in January. It states that the Japanese government mobilized hundreds of thousands of young women from Korea, China, Thailand, Vietnam and Australia to serve as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers between 1930 and the second World War.

The monument was erected in Eisenhower Park in Westbury, located some 40 kilometers from Manhattan, last June. The Korean community in New York got construction off the ground.

The final resolution used softer language compared to its initial draft, which urged the Japanese government to apologize and compensate for its wartime sexual slavery.