'Comfort women' settlement fails to settle Japan-South Korea row

Tokyo hopes key player Biden will push Seoul to improve ties

20201228Korea2

Fumio Kishida, then-Japanese foreign minister, and his South Korean counterpart Yun Byung-se shake hands after a December 2015 news conference in Seoul.  © Kyodo

YOSUKE ONCHI, Nikkei staff writer

SEOUL -- Five years after Tokyo and Seoul agreed to resolve the issue of wartime "comfort women" once and for all, progress is threatened as commemorative statues continue to go up and ongoing lawsuits demand further compensation from Japan.

Every Wednesday, members of the Korean Council (formally called the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan) gather at the former Japanese Embassy in Seoul to demonstrate against the war atrocity.

Sponsored Content

About Sponsored ContentThis content was commissioned by Nikkei's Global Business Bureau.