Based on Keiko Kawasoe’s article in WiLL magazine, this essay examines the San Francisco comfort women statue controversy, Chinese political influence, the city’s ties with Shanghai, and the breakdown of its sister-city relationship with Osaka.
It presents the argument that San Francisco has long been under strong Chinese influence within the broader context of historical and geopolitical conflict.

San Francisco has long since become a Chinese “enclave.”It has been so since before the war.
January 9, 2018.
The following is drawn from the important work by Keiko Kawasoe published in this month’s issue of the monthly magazine WiLL.
The Shock of the San Francisco Comfort Women Statue.
The covert activities of Chinese “kunoichi.”.
San Francisco, known for its Chinatown—has long ceased to be a friendly city.
Mayor Lee dies suddenly.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors designated September 22 as “Comfort Women Day” and on November 14 unanimously passed a resolution accepting the donation and maintenance costs of a comfort women statue erected locally by the Global Alliance for Preserving the History of WWII in Asia and related groups.
Edwin Lee, a second-generation Chinese-American mayor, signed the resolution.
As a result, the comfort women statue, whose inscription engraved “fake” claims such as “hundreds of thousands of women were made sex slaves” and “most died in captivity,” became city property.
Hirofumi Yoshimura, mayor of Osaka, the sister city that had sent an open letter dated February 1, 2017 clearly opposing acceptance of the donation, responded to the decision and on November 23 issued the following statement.
“Mayor Lee’s actions have destroyed the trust of the sister-city relationship.We will begin internal procedures toward its termination and aim to complete them within December.”.
On December 11, he further clarified his intention that “even after the termination of the sister-city relationship, we will continue to send letters of protest.”.
However, the next day, shocking news arrived.
Mayor Lee died suddenly.
He was sixty-five years old.
The notification was postponed and changed into a letter expressing condolences.
In the first place, San Francisco had long since become a Chinese “enclave.”.
This dates back even to before the war.
After the United States and China established diplomatic relations on January 1, 1979, the city formed a sister-city relationship with Shanghai that same year, and after Jiang Zemin became mayor of Shanghai in 1985, it had effectively fallen under his influence.
To be continued.