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Japan, S. Korea specify 9.8 mln USD funds for "comfort women" deal

Xinhua, August 12, 2016 Adjust font size:

Japan and South Korea on Friday reached a basic agreement on the implementation of a deal over the long-standing issue of "comfort women", elaborating the establishment of a fund financed by Tokyo to support the victims.

"We came to a basic agreement with South Korea on the scope of the foundation's activities,"said Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida after holding telephone talks with his South Korean counterpart Yun Byung-se on Friday.

Japan will provide 1 billion yen (about 9.8 million U.S. dollars) to the Reconciliation and Healing Foundation, set up by the South Korean government last month, by the end of this month at the earliest, local media quoted sources close to bilateral ties as saying.

As Japan hopes to ensure the funds are not deemed as reparations, Kishida said under the agreement reached earlier in the day, he presumes that the Japanese funding will go to medical and nursing care to help the "comfort women" victims and their bereaved families.

"Comfort women" is a Japanese euphemism for over 200,000 women forcibly recruited by then Japanese Imperial army to work as sex slavers in wartime military brothels.

Japan will launch procedures to swiftly disburse the funds, said Kishida. Enditem