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Coming to Terms on Japan’s Wartime Sex Slaves
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This editorial in the New York Times says the 'comfort women' agreement is a positive step, and that it was done with pressure from the Obama administration so that Japan and South Korea can do more to tackle North Korean nuclear weapons development. However as Soble and Choe Sang-Hun in the NYT point out in their report from South Korea, the primary goal of the agreement which should have been to generate goodwill has not been reached. Instead it has brought more attention to focus on this unfortunate event from the war, even to South Korean prime minister Lee's father's association as an officer in the Japanese Imperial Army.
Criticism in South Korea of the Dec. 2015 $8.3 million humanitarian 'comfort women deal' between prime minister Abe of Japan and prime minister Lee of South Korea
12/29/2015
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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South Korean and Japanese Leaders Feel Backlash From ‘Comfort Women’ Deal
New York Times 12/29/2015
Coming to Terms on Japan’s Wartime Sex Slaves
New York Times 12/30/2015
A Japan-South Korea Breakthrough
Wall Street Journal 12/30/2015
Criticism of the $8.3 million Dec. 2015 'comfort women' agreement between Japanese prime minister Abe and South Korean prime minister Lee
12/29/2015
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South Korean and Japanese Leaders Feel Backlash From ‘Comfort Women’ Deal
New York Times 12/29/2015
Coming to Terms on Japan’s Wartime Sex Slaves
New York Times 12/30/2015
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