“The comfort women issue… occurred with the involvement of the Japanese military… and the Japanese government acutely feels its responsibility”, he said.
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“Prime Minister Abe expresses anew his most honest apologies and remorse to all the women who underwent immeasurable and painful experiences”.
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Chowdhury said the two premiers agreed to “open ways for peace and better atmosphere”, while understanding each other’s concerns. Aziz dispelled the impression that the entourage of the Indian Prime Minister visited Lahore without any visa.
Japan and South Korea reached an agreement December 28 to settle the comfort women issue.
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Historians say at least tens of thousands of women, many of them Korean, were lured or coerced to work at brothels from the early 1930s until the end of World War II. In the past, Japan has repeatedly only acknowledged a fraction of the number of women or outright denied the existence of the Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery during the war.
“Our longstanding wish was… clarifying legal responsibility over this crime committed by the Japanese government so that such a tragedy will never happen again”, they said in a joint statement.
Japan agreed to offer money from its government coffers to help South Korea set up a foundation supporting the former sex slaves.
Also with regard to the latest deal, the Japanese government should clearly explain to the global community that Japan has not changed its conventional stance.
Meanwhile, North Korea, which said some of its citizens were also sex slaves, described the agreement as a big humiliation for South Korea.
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters the same day he understands the statue would be “properly relocated”.
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Japan should not treat Taiwan differently on this issue and must give Taiwanese a satisfactory explanation, he said.
Tokyo had long maintained that the “comfort women” issue was settled under a 1965 bilateral treaty normalizing relations with South Korea.
However, another former comfort woman now living in Daegu implied that the Japanese government has not done enough.
There has been an angry reception in Beijing, which wields popular anger over Japan’s wartime atrocities in China – including the use of Chinese “comfort women” – as a tool against its regional rival Tokyo.
Abe, known as a fan of South Korean culture, did not reveal exactly when she visited the shrine. Yun said South Korea recognizes Japan’s worries about security over the statue, where anti-Tokyo protests take place weekly.
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Civic support groups for comfort women victims have held rallies in front of the Japanese embassy on every Wednesday since January 8, 1992, except twice.
