Dear MEL Topic Readers,
'Comfort women': Japan and South Korea hail agreement
Finally both governments of the neighboring countries agreed to settle
the disagreement.
Though nothing would comfort or compensate the pain those women went
though and have suffered throughout their lives, a milestone consent was
announced by the two governments at the very end of the 70th year
after the war ended.
Japan “apologized” for the conduct during the war and “agreed to pay”
the amount South Korea asked for, one billion yen, to fund victims.
It is estimated that there were as many as 200,000 women were forced to
serve as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers in Korea during the previous war.
In return, South Korea “will consider” this issue resolved finally and
irreversibly, and also look into removing the symbolic statue placed by the
activists outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul.
It might have been a diplomatically agreeable settlement but will there
be a mutual agreeable outcome soon?
Enjoy reading and thinking what this accord could mean to those 46
women who have been waiting for apology and compensation by Japanese government
for too long.
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