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JAPAN/SOUTH KOREA: Comfort women ruling drives new wedge in relationship

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The Japanese government swiftly rejected an 8 January ruling by the Seoul Central District Court that it must pay compensation to a group of surviving wartime sexual slaves known as “comfort women,” citing sovereign immunity and the terms of the 1965 basic treaty between Japa...

 

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JAPAN/SOUTH KOREA: Comfort women ruling drives new wedge in relationship

The Japanese government swiftly rejected an 8 January ruling by the Seoul Central District Court that it must pay compensation to a group of