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SEOUL and Tokyo agreed yesterday on reparations for Japan’s forcing of women into sex slavery during World War II.
The agreement, which will include an official apology from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, ends decades of tension between the two countries over the abuse of so-called “comfort women” by Japanese troops.
It is seen as a triumph for the US, which has pressed its Far Eastern allies to end years of mutual hostility in the face of China’s rising power.
Japan will also establish a 1 billion yen (£5.6 million) support fund for the victims.
There are just 46 South Korean victims surviving, now in their 80s and 90s.
A joint statement by the two governments called the systematic rape “a grave affront to the honour and dignity of large numbers of women.”
It said Mr Abe expressed “his most sincere apologies and remorse to all the women who underwent immeasurable and painful experiences and suffered incurable physical and psychological wounds.”
