Hundreds of South Korean civic group activists, residents and former comfort women staged a regular rally in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul on Wednesday to urge Japan to apologize for forcing women into sexual slavery in World War II.
The Korean Council for Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, an advocate group for the sex slavery victims, has hosted a rally in front of the embassy every Wednesday since Jan. 8, 1992, calling for an apology and reparation from the Japanese government.
Three sexual slavery survivors attended Wednesday's rally, which was held on a larger scale than usual because of the upcoming 70th anniversary of the Korean Peninsula's liberation from Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule.
"I hope the Abe government will not pass the war bill. I'm against Japan's decision to lift the ban on the right to collective self-defense. Japan should abide by its pacifist constitution. It should apologize for forcibly recruiting comfort women during wartime and give compensation to the victims," said a young woman at the rally.
"The history will not disappear. It will always be there. But the Japanese government won't face up to the history. All we ask is that the Japanese government tell its people and students what really happened in the past," said another rally participant.
On the same day, visiting former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama went to the Seodaemun Prison history gallery in Seoul, where he gave tribute and showed deep condolences to the country's patriots who were killed by the Japanese army during WWII.
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