Japan said on Monday that it was sending its ambassador back to South Korea almost three months after recalling him over a statue commemorating Korean women forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War Two. Current top breaking Philippine headlines regarding the nation, world, metro…
TOKYO – Japan said on Monday that it was sending its ambassador back to South Korea almost three months after recalling him over a statue commemorating Korean women forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War Two. The two nations in 2015 agreed that the issue of « comfort women », which has long troubled ties between the Asian neighbors, would be « finally and irreversibly resolved » if all conditions of the accord – which included a Japanese apology and a fund to help the victims – were met. Japan had said that the statue near its consulate in the southern South Korean city of Busan, which depicted a young woman sitting barefoot in a chair and was erected at the end of last year, violated that agreement.
