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Post by Admin on Apr 21, 2021 19:47:30 GMT
A South Korean court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a group of people referred to as wartime comfort women and relevant families.
The suit was seeking damages from the Japanese government.
Tokyo takes the position that the lawsuit should have been dismissed on the basis of sovereign immunity. It's a concept under international law in which a state is immune from the civil jurisdiction of a court in a foreign country.
The Seoul Central District Court said it had applied sovereign immunity to the case.
No Japanese government officials attended the proceedings.
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Kato Katsunobu said the government should refrain from commenting at the moment.
Kato said, "We will continue to strongly urge South Korea, as a state, to take appropriate measures to correct violations of international law."
He added that the Japanese stance over the issue won't change at all.
Earlier in January, the same court ordered the Japanese government to pay damages to plaintiffs in a separate lawsuit.
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Post by Admin on Oct 26, 2023 10:24:43 GMT
The South Korean Supreme Court today overturned the second-trial conviction of a South Korean university professor who was accused of defaming former comfort women through his book on the comfort women issue, and sent the case back to the Seoul High Court.
In his 2013 book ''Comfort Women of the Empire'', professor emeritus Park Yu-ha of Sejong University, wrote that ''comfort women had a comradely relationship with the Japanese military,'' and was accused of damaging the honor of former comfort women. is being asked.
Subsequently, in 2017, the first trial found him not guilty, and the second trial overturned the first trial's verdict and handed down a guilty verdict with a fine of approximately 1 million yen.
In today's ruling, the Supreme Court ruled that the second trial's expression of guilt "can be appropriately evaluated as an academic assertion or expression of opinion," and the Supreme Court overturned the second trial's guilty verdict on the grounds of "innocence," and moved the Seoul High Court to The case was remanded for trial.
After the verdict, Park said, ''Thank you for giving me the right verdict.''
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Post by Admin on Feb 3, 2024 12:44:39 GMT
Comfort Women and Sex in the Battle Zone Ikuhiko Hata Rowman & Littlefield, Aug 15, 2018 - History - 392 pages Comfort Women and Sex in the Battle Zone is an exhaustive examination of the controversial issue of comfort women, who provided sexual services to Japanese soldiers before and during World War II. This book provides extensive documents and narratives by witnesses to shed light on the reality of these women who worked in the battle zone. The book also covers Japan’s political and diplomatic disagreements with neighboring nations, in particular South Korea and China, over this issue, as well as other international reactions, including the U.S. House of Representatives resolution that urged the Japanese government to apologize to former comfort women. The book is an English translation of the Japanese version first published in 1999 and reprinted several times, with additional sections covering recent developments. Contents Chapter One The Comfort Women Issue Explodes 1 Chapter Two Japans Licensed Prostitution System 23 Chapter Three In Manchuria and on the Battlefields of China 53 Chapter Four Along the Pacific Front 85 Chapter Five Battle Zone Sex Around the World 117 Chapter Six Personal Stories of the Comfort Women 147 Chapter Seven The Confabulations of Yoshida Seiji 181 Chapter Eight From the Kono Statement to the Coomaraswamy Report 197 Chapter Nine Spread of Misconceptions about Comfort Women to the International Community 227 Chapter Ten Merits and Demerits of the Asian Womens Fund 249 QA 271 About the Author 381 About the Translator 383 books.google.co.jp/books/about/Comfort_Women_and_Sex_in_the_Battle_Zone.html
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