Seoul and Tokyo have been tussling over the wording of an agreement to settle the issue.
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It is estimated that more than 200,000 women, mainly from Korea and China, were forced to work in Japan’s wartime brothels. Some women from China and southeast Asia, along with a smaller number of women from Europe and Japan, were also drafted by Japanese units, according to The Guardian.
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The women’s groups demanded for “a full apology and the formal admission by the Japanese government of its criminal intent and systematic culpability in the massive conscription of women in the occupied countries to serve as sex slaves of Japanese soldiers during the Pacific War”.
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Japan and South Korea reached an agreement Monday to help aging former comfort women in South Korea which includes the Japanese plan to offer money to the envisioned fund to be set up by the South Korean government.
Japan has long maintained its disputes with Seoul were fully settled in a 1965 deal which saw Tokyo establish diplomatic ties and make a payment of $800 million.
In this photo by Lee Jin-man, people hold portraits of late World War II “comfort women” in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea.
At the “House of Sharing” in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province, Cho told some of the women, “I’m aware that you are not satisfied with the deal, but it’s hard to clinch a better deal to restore the dignity [of comfort women]”.
Officials from both nations hailed the deal as a breakthrough but some victims and many activists angrily dismissed it as “humiliating”, taking issue with Tokyo’s refusal to accept formal legal responsibility. “The agreement does not reflect the views of former comfort women”, said Lee Yong-soo, 88, during a news conference, according to The New York Times.
Two elderly South Korean women who fell victim to imperial Japan’s sex enslavement during World War II joined the rally, shouting for the still unresolved war crime and weeping at the atrocities they had suffered under the 1910-45 Japanese colonial rule of the Korean peninsula.
There are 46 surviving Korean “comfort women”, many of whom have actively campaigned for an apology.
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The students, in addition to some 20 others, had stayed up all night in front of the original embassy building under reconstruction since Wednesday after a weekly rally ended, saying they would protect a statue of a girl symbolizing the victims, police said.
