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Taiwan urges ‘comfort women’ apology from Japan after S.Korea deal
South Korea and Japan may now be able to establish stronger bilateral ties after an agreement to “finally and irreversibly” settle the issue on Tokyo’s sexual enslavement of tens of thousands of Korean women during the World War II, reported The Guardian on Monday.
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Channel News Asia has recently reported that Ban welcomed the following talks between the Japanese and South Korean foreign ministers in Seoul.
According to the agreement, the Japanese government acknowledges the involvement of the military in the issue and feels responsibility therefore, and the two sides will set up a new fund financed around 1 billion yen (about 8.30 million US dollars) by Tokyo to support the victims.
Kishida also said Abe “expresses anew honest apologies and remorse from the bottom of his heart to all those who suffered immeasurable pain and incurable physical and psychological wounds as ‘comfort women'”.
JAPANESE and South Korean leaders announced Monday that the decades-long impasse over Japan’s “comfort women” forced to work in Japanese brothels before and during WWII had been resolved.
When asked whether China believed Japan was honest in resolving the issue, Lu said the government would be watching.
There are 46 surviving Korean “comfort women”, many of whom have actively campaigned for an apology. Also both governments, Korean and Japanese, promised to stop criticizing each other on the case of sex slavery.
The apology and fund are a very important step towards distilling the intense animosity between South Korea and Japan.
Former sex slave Lee Yong-soo shouts at First Vice Foreign Minister Lim Sung-nam, during his visit to a shelter for sexual slavery survivors in Seoul to brief them on an agreement with Japan, Tuesday.
At a care home in Seoul where some former wartime sex slaves live, senior Foreign Ministry official Lim Sung-nam was interrupted and chastised by an elderly victim as he apologized for failing to tell the women about Seoul’s consultations with Tokyo in advance. Improved relations may help spur Japanese investment in South Korea and improves the chance for the two countries to negotiate the revival of a currency swap, which expired early this year, said Sakong. While Park had demanded Japan do more to atone for its 35 years of colonial rule on the Korean Peninsula, Abe had suggested Japanese rule was less brutal than Koreans say it was.
There has always been resistance in South Korea to past Japanese apologies because many here wanted Japan to acknowledge that it has a legal responsibility to the women.
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Lim said the government’s biggest aim was to restore the dignity and honor of the victims before they all die.