Seoul is pushing for both an apology by Abe that includes a recognition of Japan’s responsibility and assistance financed by its government.
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In the past, the two governments agreed to cease raising questions of history in bilateral relations, including those related to comfort women.
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Recent court rulings in South Korea have apparently removed obstacles to the two countries’ efforts to tackle the comfort women issue.
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“Comfort women” is how Japan refers to the mainly East Asian women who were lured or coerced into service at brothels for the Imperial Japanese military during the 1930s and 40s.
Japan seeks a guarantee that any conclusion reached will be the final word on the issue.
Other women came from China, the Philippines, Indonesia and Taiwan.
There are fewer than 50 surviving Koreans – a lot of them entering their 90s – known to have been forced into sexual slavery during Tokyo’s 1910-45 colonial rule, and the comfort women issue has become the most prominent point of dispute between South Korea and Japan.
Dec 25, 2015- Japan is reported to have proposed setting up a government fund to resolve a longstanding disagreement with South Korea about sex slaves during World War Two.
Japan issued a landmark 1993 statement that expressed “sincere apologies and remorse” to the women “who suffered immeasurable pain and incurable physical and psychological wounds as comfort women”.
Government sources say one demand raised in earlier talks was the removal of a statue of a girl symbolizing the young victims that stands outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul.
Kishida said at a press briefing in Tokyo on Friday that he was arranging a visit to Seoul as early as Monday. “As before, we intend to speed up talks with the goal of an early resolution”.
Working-level talks between senior Japanese and South Korean diplomats have been held twice since the Abe-Park summit, but there has been no apparent breakthrough, sources said.
Signs of warmer bilateral relations are emerging. South Korea’s Constitutional Court dismissed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the constitutionality of the 1965 treaty.
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“The South Korean government has always changed its attitude after seeing the emotional reactions of its people”, one of the high-ranking Japanese officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
