South Korea said on Monday, March 6, that its companies would compensate people forced to work under Japan’s 1910-1945 occupation, seeking to end aThe proposal was welcomed in Tokyo but faced immediate backlash from some victims and South Korea’s main opposition party, who accused the government of capitulating to Japan.
The disagreements over labor and women forced into Japanese military brothels have bedeviled ties between the two pivotal US allies for years, but South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has made a push to repair the relationship. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he welcomed the proposal and said he would work closely with Yoon.
Japan has said the compensation issue was settled under a 1965 treaty, and Hayashi said his government’s stance had not changed. “It’s not a proper apology,” Yang Geum-deok, one of the victims, told reporters. “It should never be like this when there are people who actually did the wrong.”“It’s a day of shame,” An Ho-young, a spokesperson for the party, said in a statement. “Japanese companies embroiled in war crimes received indulgence without even budging, and the Japanese government managed to remove a trouble by having the grace to repeat past statements.
South Korea’s Yonhap news agency, citing unnamed government sources, had said that as part of the deal Seoul and Tokyo had tentatively agreed to create a separate “future youth fund” to sponsor scholarships with funds from companies in both countries.
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