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S Korea Calls on Japan to Be Careful in Making Comments on Comfort Women

© AFP 2023 / JUNG YEON-JESouth Korean students sit near a statue (C) of a teenage girl symbolizing former "comfort women" who served as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II, during a weekly anti-Japanese demonstration in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul (File)
South Korean students sit near a statue (C) of a teenage girl symbolizing former comfort women who served as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II, during a weekly anti-Japanese demonstration in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul (File) - Sputnik International
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The South Korean Foreign Ministry said Monday that it called on Japan to be more careful in making any comments on the issue of "comfort women".

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Saturday, Toshihiro Nikai, the secretary general of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, on a meeting with South Korean lawmakers urged to "eradicate" those who sought to use the comfort women issue to hamper the bilateral ties.

"It is necessary to be careful in making any comments on bilateral relations between the two countries such as the comfort women matter," a foreign ministry official told Yonhap news agency.

"Comfort women" is a term used to describe women forced to work in wartime brothels for the Japanese military during World War II. With the exact number of women involved in the practice still a subject of debate, most of the women were taken from countries occupied by Japan between 1932 and 1945, mainly Korea, China and the Philippines.

A South Korean policeman walks past a statue (C) of a teenage girl in traditional costume called the peace monument for former comfort women who served as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II, in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul on December 29, 2015. - Sputnik International
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Up to 200,000 Korean women became victims of Japanese sexual enslavement.

In December 2015, Japan and South Korea reached a deal on the issue, ending the long-standing diplomatic feud over "comfort women," with both sides having agreed to set up a foundation for sexually enslaved Korean women under the deal, which the Japanese government poured 1 billion yen ($8.8 million) into for the support of the surviving victims and their families.

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