“On the premise that the steps pledged by the Japanese government are earnestly carried out, the Korean government confirms that the matter [of comfort women] is finally and irreversibly resolved”, Yun Byung-se told a news conference.
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The agreement, in which Japan made an apology and promised an $8.3 million payment that would provide care for the women, was meant to remove one of the most intractable logjams in relations between South Korea and Japan, both crucial allies to the United States.
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The announcement of the first lady’s latest visit comes as Japan and South Korea reached an agreement on the emotional and divisive issue of wartime sex slaves – known euphemistically as “comfort women” – that has long soured relations.
We painfully acknowledge that the honor and dignity of many women were injured and the government of Japan will assume responsibility.
As part of the agreement, Seoul will try to relocate a statue symbolising comfort women which now stands in front of the Japanese embassy.
BBC reports that out of an estimated 200,000 women that were sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during WWII, only 46 are still alive in South Korea.
In 1993, then Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono issues a landmark statement over the issue by offering an apology to the former comfort women.
Many South Koreans feel lingering bitterness over Japan’s brutal colonial occupation of the Korean Peninsula from 1910-1945.
“Japan and South Korea are now entering a new era”, Abe said later.
Earlier on Tuesday, a newspaper published by China’s ruling Communist Party took a wary and skeptical note on the deal between South Korea and Japan, insisting that the deal will have “little influence” in Northeast Asia.
They’ve been called “comfort women” – they’ve also been called sex slaves. Numerous victims, nine in 2015 alone, have died.
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe also offered an apology to “everyone who has suffered lots of pain and received scars that are hard to heal physically and mentally”, Kishida told reporters after the meeting on Monday.
“For South Korea, there is no more humiliating diplomacy than to reach such a deal with Japan”.
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One former comfort woman said yesterday that she would follow her government’s lead, but another, Lee Yong-su, 88, was angry that Tokyo did not consider the money to be formal compensation. Some of them have refused the compensation from Japan, stating they felt ignored in the deal, reported Washington Post.
