The goal of the meeting is to ascertain the comfort women’s real sentiment on the issue, and to elaborate their concrete demands, using them as the basis for future negotiations with the Japanese government.
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Historians say tens of thousands of women from around Asia, many of them Korean, were sent to front-line military brothels to provide sex to Japanese soldiers.
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“Many of (the victims’) wishes have been directly or indirectly covered in the agreement, and any shortcomings will be made up for during its implementation”.
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For Japan, the statue, erected in 2011, has become a symbol of South Korea’s unwillingness to lay the issue to rest.
Japan offered a formal apology and reparations in the form of an $8.3 million payment intended for care of the women, according to a report by the New York Times.
Women’s rights advocates today urged the Philippine government to reopen the issue on comfort women with the Japanese government after Japan and South Korea concluded a diplomatic stage in resolving the issue of comfort women in Korea.
People stand in front of the official residence of PM Shinzo Abe during a rally against a landmark deal between Japan and South Korea in Tokyo, December 29, 2015.
This issue has haunted the relationship between the two countries, even though they renewed bilateral ties in 1965.
The agreement was criticized in South Korea for failing to extract Japan’s acknowledge of “legal” responsibility for the war crime and the absence of Abe’s unequivocal apology for the “forced” recruitment.
The fate of the 46 surviving South Korean “comfort women” is a hugely emotional issue in the South and a source of long-running distrust that has marred relations with Japan for decades.
On Monday, the two countries announced a deal that South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se characterized as “final and irreversible”, according to the AP.
However, a recent poll showed 66 percent of South Koreans opposed the relocation of the statue.
“There will be nothing more for the government to do in the elderly women’s lifetime”, if the deal was rejected, the office said.
A conservative scholar close to Abe told the Mainichi Shimbun daily that he and his wife might have decided to make the latest visit “to show consideration to his supporters who are against the agreement with South Korea”.
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In the face of criticism, President Park Geun-Hye has launched an all-out campaign to win public support for the deal.
