Hundreds of South Korean protesters joined two surviving former “comfort women” on Wednesday to denounce an agreement with Japan to resolve an issue stemming from Japan’s wartime past that has long plagued ties between neighbours.
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The accord was welcomed by the United States, which has been keen for improved relations between its two major Asian allies in the face of an increasingly assertive China and an unpredictable North Korea.
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Up to 200,000 women and young girls, many Korean but also from China, the Philippines and what is now Indonesia, are estimated to have been sexually enslaved by Japan during the war.
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Many South Koreans continue to feel bitterness over Japan’s brutal colonial occupation of the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945.
The Japanese government believes that if the ¥1 billion is provided without any progress on the removal, public understanding of a deal on comfort women reached Monday between the two countries would not be easy to obtain in Japan.
An apology from Japan’s prime minister for the sexual enslavement of Korean women and a pledge of more than $8 million for their medical care largely fell flat Monday with advocates in Bergen County, where there is a large Korean-American community and where the first monument to the “comfort women” in the United States was erected.
“The secretary general has stressed the importance of the countries in Northeast Asia to build the future oriented relationship, based on the recognition of history”, the statement added.
Under the agreement, Japan will establish a fund to help surviving victims and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe renewed an apology.
Abe told reporters in Tokyo after speaking by phone with Park that the two countries “will welcome a new era”.
This year’s 70th anniversary of Japan’s defeat in World War II focused world attention on the country’s war legacy and the comfort women. The rally also remembered former sex slaves who have died.
One of the women interviewed Monday said she would accept the deal reluctantly because she knew the South Korean government made efforts to settle the issue.
“Isn’t it natural to make legal compensation if they commit a crime?” said Lee Yong-su, 88, according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.
The agreement marks a significant step, but it is too early to assess its impact, said Robert Kelly, a professor of political science at Pusan National University in South Korea.
A total of 238 former comfort women have since come forward in South Korea, but only 46 are still living, majority in their 80s and 90s.
“Instead of emulating Korea for its principled stance against Japan’s militarism, President Aquino chose to open up Philippine territory to the invasion of Japanese military through the proposed PH-Japan Visiting Forces Agreement”.
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Mr. Kishida said in a statement, “The issue of comfort women, with an involvement of the Japanese military authorities at that time, was a grave affront to the honour and dignity of large numbers of women, and the government of Japan is painfully aware of responsibilities from this perspective”.
