The United States said South Korea and Japan had reached a landmark agreement regarding the “comfort women”, sex slaves forced to serve in Japanese military brothels during World War II.
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The two major Asian economies and USA allies also promised to improve ties and cooperation on regional security issues such as containing the threat from a nuclear North Korea.
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“I hope there are no words or actions on Japan’s part that could cause any misunderstandings”, Yun said during a luncheon with reporters.
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However, the consensus isn’t sitting well with those on either side of the debate. It later turned angry, with protesters shouting slogans denouncing Japan and its Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
In South Korea only 46 survivors remain of the 238 women who came forward, and their average age is 89.
The Japanese government’s $8.1 million in reparations would go toward creating a foundation to support surviving comfort women.
The two have been feuding over the legacy of Japan’s colonialization of the Korean Peninsula in the last century.
“The government can not be trusted”, said one of the women, Lee Yong-su, 88.
The Global Times, a tabloid under the People’s Daily, the ruling Communist Party’s mouthpiece, carried a front-page story on the agreement with the headline “China victims urge apology”, in which families and representatives of former comfort women maintained that the issue would not be over until Chinese victims also received formal apologies and compensation for their suffering.
“Comfort women” is a euphemism for those who were forced to work in Japan’s wartime brothels, an issue that has long plagued ties between South Korea and Japan, as well as between China and Japan.
The women and the South Korean government have fought a decades-long battle for an adequate apology for the treatment of the sex slaves.
Demonstrators sit around a “comfort woman” statue during the weekly Wednesday protest demanding an apology and compensation from the Japanese government in Seoul, South Korea, July 22, 2015.
“Japan made no such demand during the negotiations”, a South Korean official told Yonhap News Agency on the condition of anonymity.
My mother, a Dutch woman, Jan Ruff O’Herne, was a former “comfort woman” in Java in 1944.
In 1965, the Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea established a $300 million grant to Korea and a $200 million loan, while a $300 million loan was issued to a private trust.
“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. The statue and others like it have helped spur new attempts to force another apology from Japan to South Korea’s wartime sex slaves.
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The UN Secretary-General has welcomed the agreement between Japan and South Korea on issues related to so-called “comfort women”.
