In the final agreement Tokyo provided an $800 million aid and low-interest loan package over 10 years. In 1994, the Japanese government set up the Asian Women's Fund (AWF) to distribute additional compensation to South Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, the Netherlands, and Indonesia. Sixty one Korean, 13 Taiwanese, 211 Filipino, and 79 Dutch former comfort women were provided with a signed apology from the then prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, stating "As Prime Minister of Japan, I thus extend anew my most sincere apologies and remorse to all the women who underwent immeasurable and painful experiences and suffered incurable physical and psychological wounds as comfort women." However, many former Korean comfort women rejected the compensations because of pressure from a non-government organization known as the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, or "Chongdaehyop", and because of media pressure.
Eventually, 61 former Korean comfort women accepted 5 million yen (approx. $42,000) per person from the AWF along with the signed apology, while 142 others received funds from the government of Korea. The fund was dissolved on March 31, 2007.
The thing is Korea and other Asian nations want repeated,perpetual, and ever more "sincere" apologies.
Would every President of the United States need to go to every African American household in America to apologize "sincerely" for slavery in perpetuity? How about Native American households? Just saying
I did n0t realize he used the word ‘apologize’. that helps a lot, obviously.
for a long time it seemed Japan was avoiding even that term.
(if I were running Japan, I would still try to move far more affirmatively on this, even if it cost something more too...and there are lots of excesses in big wars, Japan not only used the Korean ‘confort women” but also had some torture and very bad ‘medical experiments’ in its POW camps, etc. Japan could change its entire image to something far more honorable...by addressing all of its share of the WW2 exesses.....not only the ‘confort women’ )
but again, history is history and....I certainly don’t have any patent or monopoly on morals or ideal solutions for difficult problems.
THANK YOU for the info, very helpful!
ps: My Father also refused to purchase any German or Japanese goods after the war. But despite the Japanese invasion of China, the “Rape of Nanking’ and all the rest of the sufferings inflicted on China, every Communist Chinese ‘immigrant’ to America appears to drive a brand new Toyota Lexus ........ha.......and they all seem to have gone to same driving school, too.........12 MPH on the major boulevard while occupying or blocking all three lanes at once.........................then an instantaneous rocket accelation to 112 MPH just as soon as they enter the Costco parking lot and espy the one vacant space they covet.
Maybe they figure they’re driving Japanese cars so they need to drive them like Japanese Kamakazi pilots?