South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se said the agreement was “final and irreversible”.
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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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South Korean President Park Geun-Hye today urged the public to support her latest deal with Japan on wartime sex slavery as controversy grew over the agreement to settle the decades-long dispute.
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South Korean activists said as many as 200,000 women, mainly Koreans, but also including citizens of China, the Philippines and what is now Indonesia, became sex slaves.
US experts say the agreement struck between South Korea and Japan on World War II “comfort women” is a significant step forward in improving relations between the neighboring countries.
On the issue of relocating the statue across from the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, the government must respect opinions of the victims and civic groups. In Japan, too, a section of the people feel that whatever issues were there between the two countries were settled once and for all by the 1965 Treaty.
My mother, a Dutch woman, Jan Ruff O’Herne, was a former “comfort woman” in Java in 1944.
The head of a group of Filipino victims of sexual abuse by Japanese soldiers during WW2 welcomed the deal with South Korea.
Her husband, who visited the shrine in December of 2013 – which set off a firestorm of criticism in China and South Korea and earned a rare rebuke from top ally the United States – made a ritual offering in October, though he did not go himself. The few women who survived this trauma-only 46 are alive in South Korea-have rallied and they received support for their cause from most Koreans.
Japan has repeatedly apologised or acknowledged its responsibility for wartime sex slaves, most notably in a 1993 statement by the then-chief cabinet secretary Yohei Kono.
It is to be attended by officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Executive Yuan’s Gender Equality Committee and the Ministry of Health and Welfare, as well as representatives of the Taipei Women’s Rescue Foundation and former Taiwanese comfort women, Lin said.
Abe may come under attack from his own supporters and enrage Japan’s right wing if he pushes ahead with the agreement before the statue is removed, according to Koichi Nakano, a politics professor at Sophia University in Tokyo.
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As Abe by proxy renewed an official apology for the wartime travesty committed by Japan’s military in WWII during its brutal occupation of the Korean Peninsular, politicians and political analysts here alike believed the divide between the two countries may have finally been bridged to a degree.
