South Korea court orders Japan to compensate 'comfort women'

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South Korean court orders Japan to compensate 12 women who were forced to work in its wartime brothels, a ruling that has drawn a strong rebuke from Tokyo.

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Reminders of Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule ofare contentious for both sides, with many surviving"comfort women" — a Japanese euphemism for the sex abuse victims — demanding Tokyo's formal apology and compensation.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato called the verdict"unacceptable," urging Seoul to take"appropriate measures." Vice Foreign Minister Takeo Akiba summoned South Korean Ambassador Nam Gwan-pyo to lodge an"extremely strong protest." "I emphasized that it was most important for both sides to respond in a calm, restrained manner in order to resolve the issue," Nam told reporters after being called in.After taking office in 2017, South Korean President Moon Jae-in effectively nullified the 2015 settlement, in which Japan issued an official apology and provided 1 billion yen to a fund to help comfort women victims.

"Even if it was a country's sovereign act, state immunity cannot be applied as it was committed against our citizens on the Korean peninsula that was illegally occupied by Japan." Kim Dae-wol at the House of Sharing, a shelter for the women, said two of five plaintiffs who live there were healthy enough to remotely monitor the trial and they welcomed the ruling.

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What happened to the 1 billion yen ($9.6 million) Japan already provided to a fund to help comfort women victims? Didn't any of the victims receive compensation from that fund? Asking for another bite of the apple is clearly double dipping IMO!

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Only appropriate punishment would have been death sentences for the soldiers who did this evil. RAPE IS RAPE.

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