Cctv newsIt is nothing new for Japan to make a fuss about the peninsula issue. However, the relationship between Japan and South Korea has been a bit stiff recently. Japanese media quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that the Japanese government is considering recalling its ambassador to South Korea to protest South Korean President Moon Jae in’s criticism of the Korea-Japan Comfort Women Agreement.
South Korea’s "Central Daily News" reported on the 30 th that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe convened a meeting of officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the official residence on the 28 th to discuss how Japan will respond to the recent trends of the ROK regarding the comfort women agreement. Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that one of the topics of this meeting was whether Japan should recall its ambassador to South Korea, Changling Anzheng. If Japan finally decides to recall its ambassador to South Korea, it will be the second time that Changling has been recalled to Japan due to a dispute over comfort women between Japan and South Korea in the past year.
Japan will resolutely reject the South Korean proposal to amend the agreement.
In addition, the Japanese government has agreed that if the ROK proposes to amend the comfort women agreement, the Japanese side will resolutely refuse it. As for what kind of countermeasures Japan will take, it will depend on the specific trends of the ROK.
Japan’s Sankei Shimbun quoted a senior Japanese government official as saying that South Korea released the review results of the comfort women agreement, which made Japan very dissatisfied. It will be difficult for Abe to attend the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea next February.
The working group of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea released a report on the 27th, saying that the park geun-hye-Japan Comfort Women Agreement reached with Japan on December 28th, 2015 had hidden secrets, involving non-public contents such as the portrait of comfort women and girls in front of the Japanese embassy in Korea, the memorial statues and monuments of comfort women in a third country, and the wording of "sex slaves". In addition, the report concludes that the Government of park geun-hye did not fully listen to the opinions of the victims before signing the agreement. Moon Jae in No.28 made a statement on this survey result, arguing that there were "serious flaws" in the negotiation process and content between South Korea and Japan and "the problem could not be solved".
Japan refused to face up to historical intentions and stick to the agreement
According to the analysis, the problem reflected behind the dispute over comfort women in Korea and Japan is, in the final analysis, the cognition of history. Japan does not want the international community to always put the historical shackles on itself, so it hopes to solve the problem of comfort women "finally and irreversibly" through an agreement. Since the release of the Moon Jae in government’s review report on the Comfort Women Agreement, the Japanese side has been highly concerned and reacted violently, reflecting its intention to stick to the agreement. However, the historical issue represented by the issue of "comfort women" is a "threshold" that South Korea and Japan have never been able to cross. Public opinion in South Moon Jae in and Japan believes that if the South Korean government requests to amend or tear up the agreement, the relations between the two countries will once again encounter serious challenges.