The War and Women's Human Rights Museum (전쟁과여성인권박물관)
Seoul, South Korea (2019)
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South Korea UN Comfort Women address
Recently South Korea’s Foreign Minister Mrs. Kyung-wha Kang addressed the United Nations Human Rights Committee / Council. During this address centered on the Comfort Women issue however most was spoken in Diplomatic language. Meaning most of it was incomprehensible to the normal. However four parts were comprehensible and requires a response.
First clip:
The Foreign Minister stated the claims of the South Korean Comfort Women must not be forgotten. Yeah, must not be forgotten, unless one is a Vietnamese Comfort Women. During the Vietnam War South Korean troops assisted U.S. Troops in Vietnam. The South Koreans forced Vietnamese women to be Comfort Women for them. Those victims are referred to as lai Dai Han or Lai Daihan. South Korean politicians who continue to bash Japan about the Comfort Women issue never mention their own country’s Comfort Women issue in Vietnam.
Second clip:
Mrs. Kyung-wha mentions Comfort Women of World War Two. That was done to isolate the issue solely to Japan. How come she did not state the Comfort Women of World War Two and the Vietnam War? She never mentions “Japan” in her address to the UN. Mentioning Comfort Women and World War Two was a clandestine ploy to bash Japan without mentioning Japan. Sneaky, but transparent.
Third clip:
In this clip she brings up victims. That is a play from the USA Democratic Party playbook, claim victimhood. From that same playbook it is surprising she did not accuse the Japanese of racism or denying women their reproductive rights.
Fourth clip:
Mrs. Kyung-wha pleaded for the Comfort Women stories not to be forgotten. Of course only those stories from Korean women during World War Two, while forgetting about the Vietnamese women during the Vietnam War.
South Koreans since the end of World War Two have been pressing the Japanese for compensation (payola) in reference to the contentious issue between the two nations concerning Comfort Women.
How about the Koreans before admonishing Japan for this issue they examine their own Comfort Women issue? During the Vietnam War (late 1960’s – early 1970’s) South Korea sent troops to Vietnam in an attempt to keep South Vietnam free from communism (commies). It has been reported South Korean troops and workers raped and impregnated many Vietnamese women, abandoning the children. Also reported to have forced Vietnamese women into sexual slavery – COMFORT WOMEN (Lai Daihan).
Then to compound this horror ignorant Vietnamese shun, ostracize the children of these raped women because they are half Vietnamese and half Korean. In other words according to these morons it is the child’s fault because his or her mother was raped by a Korean.
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SOUTH COREA VS JAPAN THE WEDNESDAY DEMONSTRATION AND WAR & WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS MUSEUM
In un clima di crescente tensione fra Sud Corea e Giappone abbiamo visitato il War & women's human rights museum e assistito alla protesta del Mercoledi che si tiene a Seoul dal 1992, la protesta più duratura della storia.
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Se invece volete firmare la petizione perchè il Giappone riconosca formalmente di aver creato un sistema di schiavitù sessuale, perchè interrompa ogni revisionismo atto ad eliminare quanto accaduto dalla memoria storica e riconosca formalmente i crimini commessi dall'esercito Imperiale durante l'occupazione????
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전쟁과여성인권박물관 가는길 영상 Guide to War and Women's Human Rights Museum!
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US military used the Government run korean sex slaves after the Korean War
Hypocrisy of Korea & US.
US military used the Government run korean sex slaves after the Korean War.
S. Korean 'comfort women' for US military sue state for forced prostitution
Former 'comfort women' serving U.S. military file damages lawsuit
We were the comfort women of the US Army
122 women of military camp town file lawsuit against the country
122 women who suffered from sex trafficking within the American military camp town have raised their voices and filed a compensation suit against the country. On June 25 at the Seoul Women Plaza, Korean Women's Association United, Military Camp Town Women Rights Association, Seumtuh and National Compensation Defense Council of Military Camp Town Comfort Women held a press conference and demanded the country take legal responsibility of the military prostitution issue and offer an apology and compensation to the victims.
Korea's military prostitution did not exist only within the Japanese army camps. Our nation has established the 'US Army prostitution' institution and has thoroughly maintained it, the victims claimed. The 'Japanese, UN and Korean Army comfort women's issues are all alike in that they demanded sacrifice from women as a service to the country
The outright ban on sex trafficking and the establishment of a 'special district' have allowed the US Army to enjoy our services. We were even trained under a mental educational program called 'Patriotism Education,' they said. Impoverished after the war or sold through human trafficking, we resided at the military camp town, forced through all sorts of abuses to serve the American soldiers.
The country has coerced physical examination upon us, claiming that we must be 'clean' to serve the American army. It also established a concentration camp to imprison the comfort women and forced on us treatments and monthly 'mental education,' an elderly woman who has filed suit said, shedding tears of anguish.
Jin Kim, head of the national compensation charge counsel against military prostitution, directed the blame at the nation's illegal act.
After the Korean War, the Korean government formed military camp towns for policy goals such as security. These towns skirted the law banning prostitution by establishing 'special districts' and reaped enormous benefits from it, he said.
According to the records of documents approved by former President Park Cheonghee's signature, submitted as an inquiry data last September by a member of the opposition party, 62 military camp towns and 9935 comfort women for the American forces existed at that time. The plaintiff's counsel plans to submit a petition to the Seoul Central District Court, arguing that each person should be awarded KRW 10 million.
On the one hand, Sankei News of Japan has noted, The issue of comfort women for the US forces has been raised at the National Assembly but failed to receive the attention as much as the Japanese military's forced prostitution has. According to the inquiry put forth by a member of the opposition party, former President Park complimented these women as 'dollar-earning patriots.' This was a remark that violated their human rights.
Shin Yuri Women's news reporter / Trans by Hwang Kyu Hee
Korean desecration of USA Korean War Memorial - repost
Note: This video original uploaded to YouTube June 25, 2012. It has since been attacked by gremlins (the aspect ratio). This is a correction to that attack.
It was reported South Korean students (middle school and high school) in a survey listed South Korea’s enemies as being: #1- Japan, #2- North Korea, and #3- USA.
In an article from the Associated Press (AP) appearing in The Dallas Morning News (DMN), North Korean students are taught since kindergarten to hate the U.S.A. North Koreans list their primary enemies as being #1- Japan, #2- USA.
Recently on Long Island New York, Nassau County, town of East Meadows, in a park: Eisenhower Park, right next to a Korean War memorial was placed a memorial for Korean “Comfort Women.”
A brief description of comfort women: These were women who worked in concubines (houses of ill-repute, ladies of the evening) to service the sexual desires of the Japanese military during and before World War Two.
South Korea and North Korea (the Koreas) claim the women were sex slaves and forced by the Japanese military to serve in these concubines. Japan claims the women were recruited to work in these concubines and paid for their services.
NOTE: this video does not address this issue as to whether they were sex slaves or recruited sex workers.
The comfort women issue ranges from the 1930’s to 1945. The Korean War 1950 to 1953. Neither the Korean War nor the USA had anything to do with comfort women. So why place an issue totally not related to the Korean War along with a memorial to honor the deaths of American military during the Korean War? Whatever the miss-guided reason, the result is a desecration of a war memorial in the USA by Koreans.
At the beginning of the Korean War, South Korean military and police executed 100,000 to 200,000 South Korean civilians fearing they were communist or communist sympathizers. How come a memorial to these murdered (massacre) civilians was not placed in Eisenhower Park next to the USA Korean War Memorial?
Remember 54,000 Americans died during the Korean War to keep South Korea free of communism. This desecration dishonors those 54,000 Americans with an issue not related to them or the war they died in.
The political leaders of Nassau County who permitted this desecration are just as repugnant as the sloths who placed it.
Video on comfort women, Japanese explanation:
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South Korean civilian massacres:
Comfort Women memorial in New York, Long Island, Eisenhower Park:
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ARIRANG NEWS 20:00 Korean victims of sexual slavery under Japanese m
Title: Korean victims of sexual slavery under Japanese military cry out for justice for 22 years
Today marks the twenty-second year... since Korean victims of sexual slavery by wartime Japan started their weekly protest rally near the Japanese Embassy in Korea.
The protest continues to this day... with the participants calling on Japan to acknowledge its wartime atrocities and offer legal compensation.
Kim Yeon-ji ... reports on the victims' persistent demand for justice. On Wednesday, two surviving victims of sexual enslavement by the Japanese military
during World War II stood across from the Japanese Embassy in Seoul as they've done so many times in the past... along with human rights activists and civic groups.
For the last 22 years, those coerced into sexual slavery for the Japanese military have held a demonstration every Wednesday... which makes it the longest rally ever in the world.
The group has demanded Japan fully admit to and reveal the truth about its war crimes, offer an official apology and legal reparations, punish those responsible for the crimes, accurately report on the crimes in history textbooks, and build memorials and museums in remembrance of the victims.
However, the victims, also known as former comfort women, feel Japan has not accepted any of their demands.
Japanese politicians continue to make comments that defame the victims and distort history.
Among the 237 Koreans recognized by the government as victims of sexual slavery under the Japanese military, only 56 of them are alive today.
Meanwhile, Korea and Japan are engaged in a battle in cyberspace over a comfort women memorial that was set up in a park near the Glendale Public Library in California last July.
The Glendale memorial is a replica of this one installed directly across the street from the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, which depicts a girl dressed in traditional Korean clothing.
The White House says a netizen submitted an on-line petition last week... seeking protection for the Glendale statue.
This petition was filed in protest of another petition submitted last month that asked authorities to remove the comfort women memorial in Glendale.
About 120-thousand people signed the petition demanding its removal, whereas the one seeking protection for the memorial had about 3-thousand signatures as of Tuesday morning, local time.
The White House's policy is to respond to a petition that has received 100-thousand signatures or more within 30 days after being submitted.
Kim Yeon-ji, Arirang News.
South Korea calls on Japan to show sincerity by resolving comfort women issue
Korea is once again calling on the Japanese government to take sincere actions to resolve the issue of Japan's use of sex slaves during the Second World War.
Seoul says... this has* to happen before a bilateral summit can be held between the two sides.
Hwang Sung-hee reports. South Korea called on Japan Tuesday to show its sincerity by resolving the so-called comfort women issue, amid speculation of a possible summit between the two neighbors.
This follows Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's recent declaration that his government would honor Japan's landmark apology -- dubbed the Kono Statement -- issued in 1993 to the victims of its wartime sexual enslavement.
But South Korean Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Cho Tai-young said words are not enough.
The sincere measures that we want to see are steps to resolve the issue. We want to see the comfort women issue being resolved.
Abe's recent comments had fueled speculation of a possible meeting with his South Korean counterpart at next week's Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague.
But Seoul's foreign ministry flatly denied reports that it had begun fine-tuning the details of such a meeting.
Since taking office last year, President Park Geun-hye has refused to sit down with Abe, saying she would not meet with a leader who fails to acknowledge his country's historical wrongdoings.
The Abe administration has been active in its efforts recently to engage in dialogue with South Korea.
With U.S. President Barack Obama set to visit the two countries in April, Washington has been calling on Tokyo to mend ties with Seoul, suggesting it may have been pressure rather than sincerity that drove Abe toward his change in position.
Hwang Sung-hee, Arirang News.
At a parliamentary meeting on Tuesday,... Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe described Korea as... Japan's most important neighbor that shares his country's basic values and strategic interests.
Abe, in particular, hinted that he is willing to hold talks with President Park on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague next week.
Japanese Military Sexual Slavery
Ok-Seon Lee, a survivor of Japanese sexual slavery during World War 2 and Shin Kwon Ahn, President of the House of Sharing visited Park Cities Baptist Church on Wednesday, April 12 at 11:30 a.m. They attended a luncheon and introduced the history of Japanese sexual slavery. Pamphlets introducing the House of Sharing and Spirit's Homecoming, a movie about survivors of Japanese sexual slavery, were placed on tables.
Following the luncheon, a video introducing the House of Sharing where some of the survivors of Japanese sexual slavery live in South Korea was shown. The video explained why comfort stations were put up all across Asia, how the victims of Japanese sexual slavery ended up in comfort stations, and how the human rights of the victims were violated.
Some attendees shook their heads in disbelief when the video talked about victims having to have served 20 to 30 soldiers a day in a small room.
Following the video, there was a question and answer session. At the end of the question and answer session, Ok-Seon Lee asked for the American public's interest and support by saying I came all the way from South Korea. It is very far from here. Please help me recover my dignity.
Ok-Seon Lee, Shin Kwon Ahn, and Jung-rae Cho visited Dallas to tell the American public about the Japanese sexual slavery issue. They held showings of the movie and question and answer sessions at various universities and churches in Dallas.
Earlier in the week, the director of Spirit's Homecoming arrived in Dallas on Saturday, April 16 and held a screening of the movie at Cine Oasis in Carrollton, Texas.
Following the screening, there was a question and answer session with the director. An American asked, What made you decide to make the movie? Director Cho answered, I began volunteering at the House of Sharing in 2002 by playing traditional Korean music to the survivors. While volunteering, I saw the drawing by Il-chul Kang, a survivor, which decpicted a sexual slave being burned by the Japanese. I was very shocked. The victims had to take 30 to 40 soldiers sometimes and when they couldn't some were burned to death. I decided to make the movie because I wanted to share the story of the victims. Survivor Ok-Seon Lee, President of House of Sharing Shin Kwon Ahn, and Director Jung-rae Cho will wrap up their visit to Dallas by holding a showing of Spirit's Homecoming and meeting with the Korean community at New Song Church on Saturday, April 23.
Patrick Sok press4@newskorea.com
No one cares about cherry blossoms, Korean sex ed, and Prayuth to take control
NOTES:
Wednesday | April1, 2015
It may be April Fool’s Day, but these stories are no joke: South Korea, China, and Japan are waging a war over cherry blossoms and Seoul takes a huge step backward. Plus Prayuth is posed to assume total control of Thailand.
War Waged on Cherry Blossoms
Spring is an amazing time of year, marked by the arrival of beautiful cherry blossoms. It’s also the time of year that South Korea and Japan spar of which country originated the flowering tree. This year, China enters the mix.
Seoul Steps Backwards
As much as South Korea wants to be the darling of the international stage it has a long way to go. Most recently it has banned the discussing homosexuality in schools.
Prayuth Poise for Absolute Power
Thai Coup leader and Prime Minister, Prayuth Chan-ocha has submitted to the King a request to lift martial law, but what he may replace it with might be just as restrictive or more so.
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ARIRANG NEWS 10:00 Korean victims of sexual slavery under Japanese military cry out for justice
ARIRANG NEWS 10:00
(THIS IS THE TRANSCRIPT FOR ARIRANG NEWS THAT AIRED ON 09 Jan 2014- 10:00 KST.)
Title: 10 News Title
Title: Opening
Good morning... it's Thursday the ninth of January... you are tuned in to our 10am newscast coming to you from Arirang's News Center in Seoul.
Let's take a look at what's making the headlines.
Title: Headline 1
The Korean victims of the Japanese military's wartime sexual slavery mark the 22nd anniversary of holding weekly rallies in Seoul. The women continue to demand a sincere apology from Japan.
Title: Headline 2
Despite strong objections from Korea and China, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says visiting the controversial Yasukuni war shrine is a part of his role and responsibility as prime minister.
Title: Headline 3
Plus,... the surge of polar temperatures across North America is making its way down to the southern United States, causing mercury levels to dip far below seasonal norms
Title: Korean victims of sexual slavery under Japanese military cry out for justice for 22 years
Wednesday marked the twenty-second year... since weekly demonstrations began in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul... over the still unresolved issue of Japan's use of sexual slaves during World War Two.
Surviving victims continue to call on Tokyo to acknowledge its war crimes and offer legal compensation.
Kim Yeon-ji ... reports on the ongoing demand for justice. On Wednesday, two surviving victims of sexual enslavement by the Japanese military
during World War Two stood across from the Japanese embassy in Seoul as they've done so many times in the past... along with human rights activists and civic groups.
For the last 22 years, those coerced into sexual slavery for the Japanese military have held a demonstration every Wednesday... which makes it the longest rally ever in the world.
The group has demanded Japan fully admit to and reveal the truth about its war crimes, offer an official apology and legal reparations, punish those responsible for the crimes, accurately report on the crimes in history textbooks, and build memorials and museums in remembrance of the victims.
However, the victims, also known as former comfort women, feel Japan has not accepted any of their demands.
Japanese politicians continue to make comments that defame the victims and distort history.
Among the 2-hundred-37 Koreans recognized by the government as victims of sexual slavery under the Japanese military, only 56 of them are alive today.
Meanwhile, Korea and Japan are engaged in a battle in cyberspace over a comfort women memorial that was set up in a park near the Glendale Public Library in California last July.
The Glendale memorial is a replica of this one installed directly across the street from the Japanese embassy in Seoul, which depicts a girl dressed in traditional Korean clothing.
The White House says a netizen submitted an online petition last week... seeking protection for the Glendale statue.
This petition was filed in protest of another petition submitted last month that asked authorities to remove the comfort women memorial in Glendale.
About 120-thousand people signed the petition demanding its removal, whereas the one seeking protection for the memorial had about 3-thousand signatures as of Tuesday morning, local time.
The White House's policy is to respond to a petition that has received 100-thousand signatures or more within 30 days after being submitted.
Kim Yeon-ji, Arirang News.
Title: Japanese PM hints on continuing visits to Yasukuni war shrine
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has sought to address the barrage of international criticism that has come his way over his recent visit to the controversial Yasukuni war shrine,... saying he will continue fulfilling his responsibility and role as the nation's leader.
In an interview with Japanese TV network BS Fuji on Wednesday,... Abe said that, by visiting the shrine, the hearts of many families of Japan's war dead have been healed.
Responding to Washington's official statement expressing its disappointment over his visit to the shrine, where Class-A war criminals are also honored... Abe said he could clear up... what he called... the misunderstanding once he explains his stance to U.S. officials.
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Former Japanese PM Mourns Korean Independence Activists in Seoul, Urging Abe to Apologize
Former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on Wednesday visited Seodaemun Prison history gallery in Seoul, South Korea, to express deep condolences to the country's patriots who were killed by the Japanese during the second World War.
Hatoyama was accompanied by South Korea's former members of congress during his visit.
A former prison site, the gallery was built by the Japanese during the colonial period. It had imprisoned many South Korean patriots and anti-Japanese soldiers.
Hatoyama visited their cells and presented flower bouquets.
After his visit, he presented flowers to the martyrs’ monuments in the gallery, and kneeled down to pay his tribute to the dead.
During a press conference after his visit, he said he was impressed by his visit. The patriots who were locked up here devoted their lives for their country’s independence and received interrogation here.
When asked about Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s upcoming speech on Aug 15, Hatoyama said the Japanese government must hold the right attitude towards its history.
I think Shinzo Abe's speech must include Japan’s colonial rule of South Korea, as well as the invasion to many countries including China. He should also have an introspection and apologize (to these countries). I sincerely hope Shinzo Abe could do this from the bottom of his heart, said Hatoyama.
He even left a note after his visit which read: Hope all patriots who sacrificed their lives for South Korea's independence and anti-Japanese war can rest in peace. Praying for friendship, peace and human rights.”
On the same day, South Korean representatives of civil society and citizens demonstrated at the Japanese embassy in South Korea. The demonstration has become a regular event since 1992, in memory of the 'comfort women' who were abused by the Japanese army during WWII.
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Korea, Japan could discuss wartime sexual slavery next week report
Our top story this evening...
Working-level talks between Seoul and Tokyo on Japan's wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women could be held in Seoul as early as next Tuesday, April 15th.
The Japanese daily Asahi Shimbun reported Saturday that the director general of Tokyo's Asian and Oceans Affairs Bureau, Junichi Ihara, and his Korean counterpart Lee Sang-deok have set the sex slave issue as the main agenda item for their meeting.
It's estimated that some 200-thousand women, mostly from Korea and China, were forced to become sex slaves for Japanese troops during World War Two.
During next week's talks, the two sides are also expected to touch on possible summit talks between President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as well as North Korean issues.
President Park and Prime Minister Abe have yet to hold bilateral talks since both came to power early last year.
Employee's diary comfort women
The diary of Koreans about the comfort women was discovered in 2013.
This is valuable material that informs the comfort women and the business realities.
There was a correction in subtitles. The following are the revision parts.
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Oct. 25
Mr. Miyamoto and the lady who used be the comfort lady, now waitress here married at Daiichi Shiro Botan. I was invited to the wedding reception tonight.
Correction:10,000 yen is now 30,000,000 yen.
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This video was Imported from videos of ninninhachizo's channel
PRIME TIME NEWS 22:00 Korean victims of sexual slavery under Japanese military cry out for justice
Title: Korean victims of sexual slavery under Japanese military cry out for justice for 22 years
Today marks the twenty-second year... since Korean victims of sexual slavery by wartime Japan started their weekly protest rally near the Japanese Embassy in Korea.
The protest continues to this day... with the participants calling on Japan to acknowledge its wartime atrocities and offer legal compensation.
Kim Yeon-ji ... reports on the ongoing demand for justice. On Wednesday, two surviving victims of sexual enslavement by the Japanese military
during World War II stood across from the Japanese Embassy in Seoul as they've done so many times in the past... along with human rights activists and civic groups.
For the last 22 years, those coerced into sexual slavery for the Japanese military have held a demonstration every Wednesday... which makes it the longest rally ever in the world.
The group has demanded Japan fully admit to and reveal the truth about its war crimes, offer an official apology and legal reparations, punish those responsible for the crimes, accurately report on the crimes in history textbooks, and build memorials and museums in remembrance of the victims.
However, the victims, also known as former comfort women, feel Japan has not accepted any of their demands.
Japanese politicians continue to make comments that defame the victims and distort history.
Among the 237 Koreans recognized by the government as victims of sexual slavery under the Japanese military, only 56 of them are alive today.
Meanwhile, Korea and Japan are engaged in a battle in cyberspace over a comfort women memorial that was set up in a park near the Glendale Public Library in California last July.
The Glendale memorial is a replica of this one installed directly across the street from the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, which depicts a girl dressed in traditional Korean clothing.
The White House says a netizen submitted an on-line petition last week... seeking protection for the Glendale statue.
This petition was filed in protest of another petition submitted last month that asked authorities to remove the comfort women memorial in Glendale.
About 120-thousand people signed the petition demanding its removal, whereas the one seeking protection for the memorial had about 3-thousand signatures as of Tuesday morning, local time.
The White House's policy is to respond to a petition that has received 100-thousand signatures or more within 30 days after being submitted.
Kim Yeon-ji, Arirang News.
Taiwan to meet with Japan early next year on issue of wartime sexual slavery
대만 내년초 日과 위안부교섭…필리핀ㆍ네덜란드도 협상촉구
The Japanese government has agreed to hold talks with Taiwan early next year over the issue of Japan′s wartime sex slavery atrocities against Taiwanese women.
This comes after the Taiwanese government called on the Japanese government to apologise and offer compensation, similar to the landmark agreement reached by Korea and Japan on Monday.
Kwon Jang-Ho files this report.
The Taiwanese government could strike a deal, similar to the one agreed between Korea and Japan earlier this week.
Speaking to local press on Wednesday, Taiwan′s foreign minister, David Lin, said the two governments will meet early next year to discuss the issue of the Japanese military′s sexual enslavement of women during World War II.
Lin said they will negotiate on monetary compensation and a formal apology to Taiwanese victims.
″Our most important stance on this issue is to protect the dignity and interests of Taiwanese victims. Our stance is that we urge the Japanese government to clearly make an apology and pay compensation.″
Taiwan was under Japanese colonial rule for fifty years, up to the end of the second world war.
Over two-thousand women were thought to have been forced into sexual slavery but only four are still alive today.
Victims from the Philippines are also demanding a similar agreement.
Kyodo News reported on Tuesday, the head of an organization of former Filipino ″comfort women″ said she ″respected the decision of the Koreans″ but that their government also needs to act.
Of the 174 original members of this group, less than a hundred are still alive today.
Victims from as far away as the Netherlands are also asking for an apology and compensation.
There are thought to have been about 400 Dutch women who were captured and enslaved from Dutch colonies in Asia.
Some victims were offered compensation ten years ago, but many refused, saying legal acknowledgement by Japan of its war crimes was more important.
Kwon Jang-Ho, Arirang News.
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DAY BREAK Korean victims of sexual slavery under Japanese military cry out for justice for 22 years
DAY BREAK 06:00
(THIS IS THE TRANSCRIPT FOR ARIRANG NEWS THAT AIRED ON 09 Jan 2014- 06:00 KST.)
Title: Headlines
Coming up on this Thursday edition of Day Break... the Korean victims of the Japanese military's wartime sex slavery mark the 22nd anniversary of holding weekly rallies in Seoul. The women continue to demand a sincere apology from Japan.
Despite strong objections from Korea and China, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says visiting the controversial Yasukuni war shrine, where the country's war dead, including convicted war criminals are remembered, is a part of his role and responsibility as prime minister.
Plus,... the surge of polar temperatures across North America is making its way down to the southern United States, causing mercury levels to dip far below seasonal norms. Day Break begins now.
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Title: 06 Daybreak Title
Title: Opening
You're watching Day Break on Thursday, January 9th.
I'm Choi You-sun in Seoul.
Title: Korean victims of sexual slavery under Japanese military cry out for justice for 22 years
Wednesday marked the twenty-second year... since weekly demonstrations began in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul... over the still unresolved issue of Japan's wartime sexual slavery.
Surviving victims continue to call on Tokyo to acknowledge its war crimes and offer legal compensation.
Kim Yeon-ji ... reports on the ongoing demand for justice. On Wednesday, two surviving victims of sexual enslavement by the Japanese military
during World War Two stood across from the Japanese embassy in Seoul as they've done so many times in the past... along with human rights activists and civic groups.
For the last 22 years, those coerced into sexual slavery for the Japanese military have held a demonstration every Wednesday... which makes it the longest rally ever in the world.
The group has demanded Japan fully admit to and reveal the truth about its war crimes, offer an official apology and legal reparations, punish those responsible for the crimes, accurately report on the crimes in history textbooks, and build memorials and museums in remembrance of the victims.
However, the victims, also known as former comfort women, feel Japan has not accepted any of their demands.
Japanese politicians continue to make comments that defame the victims and distort history.
Among the 2-hundred-37 Koreans recognized by the government as victims of sexual slavery under the Japanese military, only 56 of them are alive today.
Meanwhile, Korea and Japan are engaged in a battle in cyberspace over a comfort women memorial that was set up in a park near the Glendale Public Library in California last July.
The Glendale memorial is a replica of this one installed directly across the street from the Japanese embassy in Seoul, which depicts a girl dressed in traditional Korean clothing.
The White House says a netizen submitted an online petition last week... seeking protection for the Glendale statue.
This petition was filed in protest of another petition submitted last month that asked authorities to remove the comfort women memorial in Glendale.
About 120-thousand people signed the petition demanding its removal, whereas the one seeking protection for the memorial had about 3-thousand signatures as of Tuesday morning, local time.
The White House's policy is to respond to a petition that has received 100-thousand signatures or more within 30 days after being submitted.
Kim Yeon-ji, Arirang News.
Title: Japanese PM hints on continuing visits to Yasukuni war shrine
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has sought to address the barrage of international criticism that has come his way over his recent visit to the controversial Yasukuni war shrine,... saying he will continue fulfilling his responsibility and role as the nation's leader.
In an interview with Japanese TV network BS Fuji on Wednesday,... Abe said that, by visiting the shrine, the hearts of many families of Japan's war dead have been healed.
Responding to Washington's official statement expressing its disappointment over his visit to the shrine, where Class-A war criminals are also honored... Abe said he could clear up... what he called... the misunderstanding once he explains his stance to U.S. officials.
South Korea designates August 14 as official memorial day of 'comfort women'
첫 국가기념일로 지정된 일본군 '위안부' 피해자 기림의 날… 아픔을 기억하다
Today marks the sixth anniversary of the international memorial day for 'comfort women'... the term used to describe the victims of Japan's wartime system of sexual slavery.
Most of them were from Asian nations,...and the majority were Korean.
And from this year, South Korea is officially marking the day as an official memorial day as well.
Kan Hyeong-woo has more on the significance of the designation.
On this day 27 years ago, Kim Hak-soon, a Korean victim of the Japanese military's wartime sexual enslavement testified about what happened to her,… breaking a decades-long silence on the issue.
And in 2012, the Asian Solidarity Conference for the Issue of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, a group of victimized countries,... including Korea, China, and the Philippines, designated the day as the International Memorial Day for Comfort Women.
But it was only late last year that the Korean government officially designated August 14 as a memorial day for the comfort women,... so this is the first time for the country to be commemorating the national anniversary.
This is just the beginning. To make this the most meaningful national memorial day, I believe in unceasing efforts to restore the human rights of the victims by revealing the truth. We also have to teach a true history to prevent the recurrence of such a tragedy.
South Korea's designation of a memorial day for the comfort women is in lockstep with the current administration's stance on the 2015 agreement between Seoul and Tokyo,... in which Japan gave about nine million U.S. dollars to fund a foundation for the victims and to resolve the issue of Japan's wartime sexual slavery.
But Seoul decided not to use the money... and just last month, the Cabinet approved a government budget to replace the Japanese fund.
The decision is line with the Moon administration's conclusion that the 2015 deal failed to reflect the opinions of the victims.
Experts, however, say that renegotiating the agreement might be unrealistic,… but the dispute between the individual victims and the Japanese government needs to be settled.
Even though the agreement between the two countries was made, the victims still have the right to hold Japan legally accountable. There has been a lot of effort made in South Korea, but every time the case reaches Japan's Supreme Court it gets thrown out.
Of the 240 registered victims in South Korea, only 28 women are still alive... and as their average age is over 90 years old, time is running out for them to receive what they call a heartfelt apology from Tokyo.
Kan Hyeong-woo, Arirang News
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