Months after agreement, Japan minister denies government link to South Korean comfort women – Women in the World in Association with The New York Times – WITW

Months after agreement, Japan minister denies government link to South Korean comfort women – Women in the World in Association with The New York Times – WITW



 Only two months have passed since Japan’s prime minister “finally and
irreversibly” settled a decades-long dispute with South Korea over the
use of 200,000 women as sexual slaves during World War II, but this
week, deputy foreign minister Shinsuke Sugiyama told the United Nations
panel that there was no evidence that the Japanese government was
involved.

Former South Korean "comfort
women" take part in a rally in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul,
South Korea. (REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji)