Taiwan has asked Japan to give the same treatment to Taiwanese comfort women as the agreement reached with South Korea. A local civic group in support of the 46 remaining “comfort women”, who are mostly in their late 80s, vehemently resents the deal calling it “diplomatic collusion betraying the hopes of the victims and the public”.
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“The comfort women issue is one of the earlier examples of mass performed human trafficking organized by a military and government”, Jung-shil Lee, an art history professor at the Corcoran College of Art and Design and the vice president of the Washington Coalition for Comfort Women, said a year ago, when the memorial to the Comfort Women was erected on the grounds of the Fairfax County government center.
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Japanese first lady Akie Abe said she has again visited the controversial Yasukuni war shrine in Tokyo, posting photos of the site on the same day Japan and South Korea struck a landmark agreement on wartime sex slaves.
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For 7.6 million euros or one billion yen and reiteration of a Japanese apology, South Korea’s government agreed to “finally and irreversibly” accept compensation for elderly survivors over the long-standing issue.
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said on Monday the payment was aimed at “restoring the women’s dignity” but was not an official compensation.
Activists and the political opposition said the Japanese government had avoided legal responsibility for the crimes by contributing to a fund set up by Seoul to pay reparations to victims.
Under the agreement announced Monday, Japan will apologize to the Korean women for the physical and emotional pain and contribute approximately $8.3 million to a fund for the survivors.
According to witnesses, the students held up a banner reading “The South Korean people reject the deal with Japan” near the entrance to the building.
For the past 70 years, Korean women once forced to serve the Japanese army as sexual slaves during World War II have demanded justice from the Japanese government.
Disputes between Tokyo and Seoul over the issue of comfort women have strained bilateral ties and had prevented Abe, who took office in 2012, and President Park Geun Hye, who was inaugurated in 2013, from holding a one-on-one meeting until November.
“It is a reciprocal (condition) that applies to both sides, and clearly contains the message that Japan should also refrain from actions that violate the agreement”, the ministry said.
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There has been an angry reception in Beijing, which wields popular anger over Japan’s wartime atrocities in China – including the use of Chinese “comfort women” – as a tool against its regional rival Tokyo.
