Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expresses an “apology and repentance from the bottom of his heart” to the victims, Kishida said.
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Lee Yong-soo, 89, one of the two former comfort women present at the rally, called for a honest apology from the Tokyo government, insisting the agreement lacks legal responsibility.
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“What we worry about is public reaction to the terms we promised to Japan… all of which are highly volatile issues”, it said in an editorial.
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Japan’s government will directly finance an $8.3 million fund to be set up by the South Korean government to help deal with the psychological and physical needs of the 46 surviving former South Korean victims.
Later Monday, Abe called South Korean President Park Geun-hye and reiterated his apology. The minister said Kerry had highly assessed what he cited as the “resolute decision and visions” of South Korea and Japan’s leaders. After the agreement has been announced in Seoul, Abe stated, “We must not let this problem drag on into the next generation”.
When she was 21 years old, she was taken out and forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese military, where she was repeatedly beaten and raped.
The Taipei Women’s Rescue Foundation, which has been assisting the so-called comfort women, says of the 58 survivors, only four are now alive. “For the women who were forced into sex slavery by the Japanese Army during World War II, the wounds have stayed open for decades”.
Some in Seoul saw the deal, while not ideal, as an important step forward.
In a statement released December 28, Presidential Office spokesperson Charles Chen acknowledged the Japanese government’s positive move, and reiterated that the same treatment should be extended to Taiwan’s comfort women as well. Many were from Korea, which was annexed by Japan from 1910-45.
Both countries are expected to sign a formal agreement that relieves Japan of any further responsibility and liability for all past wartime grievances. But Kan Kimura, an expert on Japan-South Korea relations at Japan’s Kobe University, struck a note of caution.
The Kyodo reported that Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida dismissed the view that using state budget for such a objective would mean that Japan will offer reparations for South Korea.
In recent years, Japan’s worldwide reputation has been considerably damaged due to the prevailing misunderstanding that there was forcible recruitment of women by the Japanese military.
In the past, Japan lived with the concept that all war-related compensation issues to South Koreans were resolved in 1965, when the country restored diplomatic relations with Seoul.
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“The government’s stance is to demand the Japanese government apologize to the comfort women from our country during World War II, to compensate them, and to return justice and dignity to them”, the Taiwanese president said.
