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Japanese, S. Korean leaders meet in Tokyo amid raging opposition

STORY: Japanese, S. Korean leaders meet in Tokyo amid raging opposition DATELINE: March 17, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:33 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the street view in Tokyo 2. various of the protests 3. SOUNDBITE (Japanese): Protestor STORYLINE: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met with visiting South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol in Tokyo on Thursday, amid waves of opposition and criticism over ignoring history. At the Prime Minister's Official Residence, Kishida met with Yoon, who is on a two-day visit to Japan. It marked the first time in nearly five years that leaders of the two countries have held a summit in Japan. Yoon's visit followed his step to resolve the dispute over wartime laborers. South Korea earlier announced a plan that a local foundation would gather funds for South Koreans forced to work for Japanese companies during World War II and pay compensation the South Korean court judgment demanded from Japanese companies. Yoon's plan has been triggering resent

Chinese envoy urges Japan to face up to history on issue of "comfort women"

STORY: Chinese envoy urges Japan to face up to history on issue of "comfort women" DATELINE: April 14, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:37 LOCATION: UN Headquarters CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (Chinese/English interpretation): DAI BING, China's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations STORYLINE: SOUNDBITE (Chinese/English interpretation): DAI BING, China's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations "In East Asia, there is also a group of victims of sexual violence in conflict, who have been living with nightmare memories, but have not been able to get justice even till their death. This group is the 'comfort women' forcibly drafted by the Japanese army during the Second World War. During that period, hundreds of thousands of women and girls from China, the Korean Peninsula, Southeast Asia and other countries and regions were forcibly conscripted by Japanese militarists as 'comfort women' and became prisoner in hell. They have experienced horrific sexual violence, both mentally and

S. Koreans who served as 'sex slaves' demand apology from Japan

SEOUL, South Korea - A group of elderly South Korean women who say they worked as ''sex slaves'' for the Japanese military during World War II stage a sit-in in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on July 31 to demand a formal apology from Japan. The protest was held after the U.S. House of Representatives approved a resolution demanding an apology from Japan over its military's sexual enslavement of young women in Asia during World War II. (Kyodo)

Supporters of former sex slaves urge gov't to apologize, compens

TOKYO, Japan - Representatives from the Center for Research and Documentation on Japan's War Responsibility, Women's Active Museum on War and Peace, and Violence Against Women in War-Network Japan meet the press in Tokyo on July 31, after submitting a joint proposal to the government urging Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to clearly apologize and compensate the victims of Japan's sexual enslavement during World War II. The move came a day after the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution urging Japan to ''formally acknowledge, apologize and accept historical responsibility in a clear and unequivocal manner'' over the sex slave issue. (Kyodo)

Chinese forced workers call for rights before top court ruling

TOKYO, Japan - Shao Yicheng (R), 81, a former forced laborer from China, and other Chinese plaintiffs speak at a news conference in Tokyo on April 25, calling for a ''fair'' judgment two days before the Supreme Court rules on whether Chinese individuals, including people who were forced to undertake forced labor in Japan during World War II, have the right to demand war reparations from Japan. The court will make a judgment on April 27 on whether China has given up individuals' rights to seek reparation under postwar agreements such as the 1972 Japan-China Joint Communique in which the Chinese government abandoned its right to do so. (Kyodo)

Court dismisses compensation claims by WWII Chinese sex slaves

TOKYO, Japan - Chen Yabian, one of the eight Chinese plaintiffs, expresses anger at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 30 after the Tokyo District Court dismissed a damages suit against the Japanese government for forcing them into sexual slavery for the Japanese military during World War II and not taking measures to restore their honor.

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TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda speaks at a press conference on May 27 in the office of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. (Kyodo)

Ex-sex slaves urge Arroyo to take up their cause against Japan

MANILA, Philippines - About 30 Philippine women forced into prostitution by the Japanese military during World War II and their families hold a rally near the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila on Feb. 28, urging President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to take up their cause and ask Japan for an official apology. (Kyodo)

Ex-sex slaves from Taiwan demand compensation from Japan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Five Taiwanese women forced into Japanese military brothels during World War II stage a protest April 29 with their supporters in front of Japan's unofficial mission in Taiwan, the Interchange Association's Taipei Office, to demand for compensation from the Japanese government.

S. Korean lawmakers demand revisions to screened textbooks

TOKYO, Japan - Park Sang Cheon (C), vice chairman of the (South) Korea-Japan Parliamentarians Union, and another South Korean lawmaker meet with Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Nobutaka Machimura (L) at the ministry in Tokyo on April 12. During the meeting, the South Korean lawmakers demanded that Japan revise several recently screened junior high school history textbooks, which they say distort historical facts about Japan's wartime aggression toward its Asian neighbors.

Ex-sex slaves press for rescreening of history textbooks

TOKYO, Japan - Hwang Kum Ju (C), 82, and Kim Un Rye (R), 76, two South Korean women who say they were forced to provide sex to Japanese soldiers during World War II, press for another screening of some controversial history textbooks during their visit to the education ministry April 26.

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