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Abe apologises, offers one billion yen to South Korea 'comfort women'
Published Mon, Dec 28, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Seoul
JAPANESE Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a landmark apology to South Korean "comfort women" coerced into Japanese military brothels before and during World War II, with his government agreeing to provide one billion yen (S$11.7 million) to a fund for compensating victims.
The governments of Japan and South Korea agreed that this would be a final "irreversible" solut…
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