Visit Japan: Japan and Moon

visit japan: Moon has called for renegotiating the 2015 agreement the preceding administration struck with Japan to finally and irreversibly resolve the long-standing issue of Korean women forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels, according to The Japan Times. Japan hopes Moon's administration will stick to the accord but remains cautious about the prospect, given the strong opposition from the South Korean public. While Abe will most likely seek a meeting on the sidelines of the summit of the Group of 20 major economies in Hamburg, Germany, in early July, Tokyo is also exploring the possibility of having Moon, who took office May 10, visit Japan on his way back from a planned trip to the United States in late June, they said. Under the accord, Japan disbursed 1 billion 8.9 million last year to a South Korean fund to help the surviving former comfort women and their families. The statue reportedly appeared in December, shortly after Defense Minister Tomomi Inada paid a visit to war-linked Yasukuni Shrine right after returning from Hawaii with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe following his historic visit to the sensitive USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor. A South Korean civic group set up a statue symbolizing the comfort women in front of the Japanese Consulate General in Busan last December, triggering a protest by Tokyo, which said the statue goes against the spirit of the agreement. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.