Comfort Women is a translation of a Japanese/Korean euphemism. The sexual slaves were often recruited by trickery and forced to serve the Japanese military in the field in Asia and the Pacific during the Pacific War. They were mostly from Korea
In the news this week Japan has agreed to settle the wartime sexual slavery issue. Under the agreement between Korea and Japan there is to be a fund created in the amount of 1 billion yen for support of the victims. No decision has been made as to who will manage the fund and how it will actually be used.
Lee Yong-su, one of the remaining victims has voiced that the issue has not been settled. "We were not fighting for this kind of settlement." The victims and activists stressed that the government failed to secure Japan's acknowledgement of its legal responsibility for the sexual slavery.
There is also the issue of relocating the stature of a girl representing the former sex slave in front of the Japanese Embassy. Chewing Wa Dae confirms this is the issue of "restoring the honor and dignity" of the victims.
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