mon 28 dec 2015, 08:38

Apologies of Japan for ‘troostmeisjes’

TOKYO –

Japan and South Korea have reached an agreement on a year-long dispute in the issue of slavery of women in brothels of the Japanese imperial army during the Second world War. This allowed the South Korean Foreign minister Yun Byung Se on Monday to know after a meeting with the Japanese minister of Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida.

Japan and South Korea have an agreement to reach about the so-called ‘Troostmeisjes’. Japan have now come to recognize his responsibility in the matter, and feels “deeply responsible”.
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Japan have now come to recognize his responsibility in the matter, and feels “deeply responsible”. Both sides agreed to a new fund to support victims.

“Prime minister shinzo Abe press as prime minister of Japan, his sincere feeling of apology and repentance for all that as a ‘troostmeisjes’ much suffering and incurable mental and physical wounds have experienced”, said minister Kishida at a press conference.

The controversy over the so-called ‘troostmeisjes’ was until now the biggest obstacle for improvement of the relations between the two East Asian countries.

The question of the ‘troostmeisjes’ was also a sensitive issue in relations with the Netherlands. Approximately 200,000 women from China and Korea were by the Japanese in the war forced as prostitutes to work. Also in the Dutch east Indies were women to do with this. In 1993, expressed Japan about this, sorry.