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.
