South Korea, Japan Reach Deal On Women Forced Into Sexual Slavery

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The foreign ministers of South Korea and Japan said Monday they had reached a deal meant to resolve a decades-long impasse over Korean women forced into Japanese military-run brothels during World War II, a potentially dramatic breakthrough between the Northeast Asian neighbors and rivals.

The deal, which included an apology from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and a 1 billion yen ($8.3 million) aid fund from Tokyo for the elderly former sex slaves, could reverse decades of animosity and mistrust between the thriving democracies, trade partners and staunch U.S. allies.

The issue of former Korean sex slaves, euphemistically known as "comfort women," has been the biggest source of friction in ties between Seoul and Tokyo, with animosity rising precipitously since the hawkish Abe's 2012 inauguration.

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/south-korea-japan-sexual-slavery-wwii_5680e3ede4b0b958f659cb42

 

It was time, really

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Well good an accord is reached

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In China, many social-media users denounced Tokyo for what they saw as lack of contrition over similar historical wrongdoings on the mainland.

"You can compensate South Korean comfort women, but when it comes to Chinese comfort women, you renege on your debts," Chinese writer Liu Xinda wrote on his verified Weibo microblog, using a common euphemism for wartime sex slaves. "They are all comfort women; on what grounds do you draw distinctions between them?"

Beijing and Tokyo have endured often-fractious ties since the end of the war, during and before which Japan held large parts of the mainland in a brutal occupation. At the time, Japanese troops forced many Chinese women into sexual slavery, a practice that was replicated across other Japanese-occupied territories. China's antagonism also stems from atrocities ranging from the 1937 Nanjing massacre to medical experiments conducted on Chinese prisoners by Japan's notorious Unit 731.

Read more:  http://www.nasdaq.com/article/china-shows-skepticism-on-japans-comfort-women-apology-20151229-00088#ixzz3vlQq7Wa

 

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28 minutes ago, Licq said:

In China, many social-media users denounced Tokyo for what they saw as lack of contrition over similar historical wrongdoings on the mainland.

"You can compensate South Korean comfort women, but when it comes to Chinese comfort women, you renege on your debts," Chinese writer Liu Xinda wrote on his verified Weibo microblog, using a common euphemism for wartime sex slaves. "They are all comfort women; on what grounds do you draw distinctions between them?"

Beijing and Tokyo have endured often-fractious ties since the end of the war, during and before which Japan held large parts of the mainland in a brutal occupation. At the time, Japanese troops forced many Chinese women into sexual slavery, a practice that was replicated across other Japanese-occupied territories. China's antagonism also stems from atrocities ranging from the 1937 Nanjing massacre to medical experiments conducted on Chinese prisoners by Japan's notorious Unit 731.

Read more:  http://www.nasdaq.com/article/china-shows-skepticism-on-japans-comfort-women-apology-20151229-00088#ixzz3vlQq7Wa

 

Japan REALLY dragged the hell out of Korea and China in WW2

This won't do anything sadly, What Japan did to its neighbors in WW2 was too much, it will not be forgotten just like that

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welp Japan has finally apologized but now when will koreans apologize for doing the exactly same thing to Vietnam?

Lai Dai Han means vietnamese comfort women, look it up

you are just as guilty as the other