Japan and South Korea signed the agreement on ‘Issue of Comfort Women’

Japan and South Korea signed the agreement on ‘Issue of Comfort Women’ with the aim to resolve the dispute over women of Korea who used as sex slaves by soldiers of Japan during the World War-II. The foreign ministers of the two countries said after a meeting in Seoul that the “comfort women” issue would be “finally and irreversibly resolved” if all conditions were met. South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged to take the opportunity to boost bilateral ties following the agreement, in which Japan made an apology and promised about one billion yen ($8.3 million) for a fund to help former “comfort women.”