While the court acknowledged that the pain the “comfort women” suffered was “not at all light,” it refused to rule on the verbal accord’s constitutionality, saying that it was a “political deal.”
There are hardly any women left. Of the estimated 200,000 mainly Korean women forced into prostitution by the Japanese Imperial Army in WWII, maybe a few dozen are still alive. And these women are still—nearly 75 years later—fighting to gain restitution from the country that forced them into sexual slavery, despite a “final and irreversible” deal reached between Korea and Japan in 2015.
Under the agreement, Japan apologized to the survivors and provided 1 billion yen to compensate them while South Korea promised never to raise the issue again, “When you are talking about victims of human rights abuses, you can’t come to a resolution without their presence and consent,” Koichi Nakano, a political scientist at Sophia University in Tokyo, in early 2018.
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