Korean women are still—nearly 75 years later—fighting to gain restitution from the country that forced them into sexual slavery, despite a “final and irreversible” deal reached between Korea and Japan in 2015.
There are hardly any women left. Of the estimated 200,000 mainly Korean women forced into prostitution by the Japanese Imperial Army in WWII, maybe a few dozen are still alive. And these women are still—nearly 75 years later—fighting to gain restitution from the country that forced them into sexual slavery, despite a “final and irreversible” deal reached between Korea and Japan in 2015.
Under the agreement, Japan apologized to the survivors and provided 1 billion yen to compensate them while South Korea promised never to raise the issue again, “When you are talking about victims of human rights abuses, you can’t come to a resolution without their presence and consent,” Koichi Nakano, a political scientist at Sophia University in Tokyo, in early 2018.
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