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South Korean and Japanese Leaders Feel Backlash From ‘Comfort Women’ Deal
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A civic group plans to continue showing a woman's statue representing 'comfort women' in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul. South Korean media is critical about the lack of merit in generating goodwill of the agreement between prime minister Abe and prime minister Lee on 'comfort women.' Some South Koreans see an uncomfortable association between history showing Ms. Lee's father being an officer in the Japanese Imperial Army, and the agreement that does not do much to put the issue behind by offering $8.3 million. Japanese prime minister Abe considers the 1965 agreement normalizing relations between the 2 countries with no reparations as final, with no exceptions for the situation where many South Korean women were used by the Japanese Imperial Army. An exception might open up claims from other survivors of the war in other situations, Japan fears. Japan offered $8.3 million as an humanitarian gesture for the surviving 46 comfort women, which is seen as insulting for the women in the South Korean media. The women say they were never consulted.
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The 46 South Korean survivors of that ordeal in the Second World War say they were not consulted. The deal was on a humanitarian basis not a reparation. Some South Koreans find the $8.3 million insulting. Japan insists that the 1965 agreement normalizing relations including renouncing reparations between the two countries is final. South Koreans see the need for an exception in this situation. Prime minister Abe's wife visited the Yasukuni shrine for world war dead. Mrs. Lee's husband worked in the Imperial Japanese Army creating negative connotations for Mrs. Lee in the media. As a result the agreement may have accomplished little in the way of creating goodwill which should have been uppermost in the minds of the two politicians rather than some sort of agreement that does not move the unfortunate memory into the past.
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