Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou urged his government yesterday to hold negotiations with Japan to demand the country offer an official apology and compensation to wartime “comfort women” in Taiwan, Japan’s Jiji Press reported.
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“Japan took us to be comfort women and still tries to deny its crime”, Lee said as protestors milled around the bronze statue of a barefoot teenage girl, which symbolizes women forced to work in Japanese brothels.
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“Comfort women” is the phrase used for, what some say, were up to 200,000 women from various, mainly Asian, countries forced into sex slavery for the Japanese military, according to the Washington Coalition for Comfort Women Issues, Inc. The deal was met with relief by many, but also fury from the victims and activists.
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“We are not craving for money”, said Lee Yong-soo, 88, one of the women. “What kind of misdeeds have we done, people?”
The mood was sombre as nine former sex slaves who died this year were commemorated.
Phyllis Kim, spokeswoman for the Korean American Forum of California, said it’s not right for Japan to ask for silence on the issue into the future, especially when it comes to history textbooks down the road. The prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe likewise apologized personally, something he previously was reluctant to do, for the treatment the women received.
Scholars debate the question of how many women were exploited.
It has been decades since the war ended and yet the pain that the so-called “comfort women” lingered through time.
An editorial in the official Xinhua News Agency also questioned Japan’s sincerity in the matter, saying that if Japanese intentions were genuine, “it would have apologised and compensated its victims regardless of their nationalities”.
“The scope of the agreement that came out was very disappointing because it was scaled down to a Korea-Japan diplomacy issue”.
South Korean President Park Geun-Hye called for “understanding by the public and the victims” about the deal. Dubbed the Memorial Peace Garden, the land is a memorial to the thousands of “comfort women”.
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.
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No businesses or industry group could immediately be reached in the run-up to the New Year holiday to discuss the implications of removing what has been one of the most contentious issues between the two countries.
