{"id":22161,"date":"2015-12-28T07:52:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T07:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/japan-and-south-korea-reach-deal-on-wartime-sex\/"},"modified":"2015-12-28T07:51:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T07:51:54","slug":"japan-and-south-korea-reach-deal-on-wartime-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/japan-and-south-korea-reach-deal-on-wartime-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan and South Korea reach deal on wartime sex slaves"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Tokyo offers $8.7m in compensation for former sex slaves, who were referred to as “comfort women” in wartime Japan.}<\/p>\n

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has heralded a “new era” in Japanese – South Korean relations after the two countries reached a landmark deal on the issue of wartime sex slaves.<\/p>\n

Under Monday’s deal, Japan will finance a 1bn yen aid ($8.7m) fund for the Korean women forced into Japanese military-run brothels during World War II, euphemistically referred to as “comfort women”.<\/p>\n

“Japan and South Korea will welcome a new era,” Abe told reporters after speaking by phone with South Korean President Park Geun-Hye. “Both countries will cooperate together to open” it, he added.<\/p>\n

The deal was reached in South Korea’s capital Seoul at a meeting between the foreign ministers of the two countries.<\/p>\n

“The comfort women issue… occurred with the involvement of the Japanese military… and the Japanese government acutely feels its responsibility,” Japanese foreign minister Fumio Kishida said after a meeting with his South Korean counterpart Yun Byung-Se.<\/p>\n

Kishida added that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed an “apology and repentance from the bottom of his heart” to the victims.<\/p>\n

Yun Byung-se said the agreement was “final and irreversible,” as long as Japan faithfully followed through with its promises.<\/p>\n

Strained ties<\/p>\n

The issue has long been a source of friction between Seoul and Tokyo, with South Korea previously accussing Japanese leaders of repeatedly failing to properly atone for wartime atrocities.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

In South Korea, there are 46 such surviving former sex slaves, mostly in their late 80s or early 90s.<\/p>\n

Many survivors of the wartime sexual slavery had urged Japan to issue an official apology, make reparations and include wartime atrocities in Japanese school textbooks.<\/p>\n

The US sees North Korea as a key rival in the south east Asian region and hopes to benefit from the strengthening of ties between its two allies, South Korea and Japan.<\/p>\n

The two Northeast Asian countries together host about 80,000 U.S. troops and are members of now-stalled regional talks aimed at ending North Korea’s nuclear ambitions in return for aid.<\/p>\n

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