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In this Feb. 3, 2014 photo, Kim Gun-ja, 89, a former comfort woman who was forced to serve for the Japanese troops as a sexual slave during World War II, passes by her portraits at the House of Sharing, a nursing home and museum for 10 former sex slaves, in Toechon, South Korea. AP<\/p><\/div>\n

SEOUL, South Korea \u2014 Japan sent Thursday a promised one billion yen ($9.6 million) to a South Korea foundation for former sex slaves for wartime Japanese soldiers, as part of a controversial deal struck last year aimed at settling the “comfort women” issue.<\/p>\n\n

Mainstream historians say up to 200,000 women, mostly from Korea but also other parts of Asia including China, were forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War II.<\/p>\n\n

The plight of the so-called comfort women is a hugely emotional issue that has marred relations between the two Asian neighbors for decades and which, for many South Koreans, symbolizes the abuses of Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule over the Korean peninsula.<\/p>\n\n

Last December, the two nations reached a “final and irreversible” agreement, under which Tokyo offered an apology and one billion yen to open a foundation for the dwindling number of comfort women who are still alive.<\/p>\n\n

Tokyo formally wired the payment to South Korea’s state-run Reconciliation and Healing Foundation Thursday morning, Seoul’s foreign ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n

Seoul said the money would be used for financial assistance for the surviving victims — currently numbered at 40 — and families of the victims who have already died.<\/p>\n\n

But the deal was condemned by some of the women and South Korean activists, who took issue with Japan’s refusal to accept formal legal responsibility.<\/p>\n\n

A group of 12 comfort women filed a lawsuit against Seoul this week for signing the agreement without their consent and despite Tokyo’s refusal to take legal responsibility.<\/p>\n\n

The compromise agreement also drew a mixed reaction in Japan, with some far-right activists and newspapers criticizing Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for offering the apology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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