The Japanese government feels “deep responsibility” over the comfort women issue and will contribute to a fund to help the women, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida told a news conference after a meeting with South Korea’s Yun Byung-se.
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The issue of “comfort women” – a euphemism for those forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels – has long plagued Japan-South Korea ties.
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A statement by both countries’ foreign ministers said Prime Minister Shinzo Abe “expresses anew his most honest apologies and remorse to all the women who underwent immeasurable and painful experiences and suffered incurable physical and psychological wounds as comfort women”, the euphemistic name given the women.
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Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Prime Minister Abe expresses an “apology and repentance from the bottom of his heart”, but it is not Tokyo’s first. “The focus is now on whether we can reach an agreement with the South Korean side”, the official said.
Abe is contemplating establishing a fund for the women & providing a message of apology in that may pertain to Japan’s responsibility for his or her remedy.
Last month, the leaders of the countries resumed formal talks after a 3 ½-year hiatus and agreed to try to resolve the sex slave issue.
Only four of the Taiwanese women who have spoken openly of their suffering at the hands of Japanese forces are still alive, according to the foundation. Japan paid $800 million in economic aid and loans to South Korea in that settlement.
Government spokesmen were unable to confirm the reports of the foreign ministers’ meeting.
Kyodo News quoted him as saying, “I will do my utmost to move forward Japan-South Korea relations by the end of this year, which marks the 50th anniversary of the normalization of bilateral ties”. Japan’s biggest newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun reported Saturday, . citing sources within the Korean government, that Korea might consider relocating the statue.
Kimihiro Ishikane, director general of the Foreign Ministry’s Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, met with Lee Sang Deok, director general of the Northeast Asian Affairs Bureau of South Korea’s Foreign Ministry.
Earlier this month, another victim died at the age of 96, bringing the number of surviving South Korean former sex slaves to just 46 from an original tally estimated to have reached the hundreds of thousands.
“We’ve nearly drafted a resolution”.
After that, South Korean courts acquitted a Japanese journalist accused of defaming President Park Geun-hye, and declined to hear a claim for compensation for colonial-era forced labour.
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“The Government of Japan and the Government of the Republic of Korea (ROK) have intensively discussed the issue of comfort women between Japan and the ROK at bilateral meetings including the Director-General consultations”.
