August 12, 2013
Japanese Communist Party parliamentarian Kasai Akira on August 10 visited South Korea to attend a commemoration event of the 21st anniversary of the House of Sharing (a home for former “comfort women”) and the 15th anniversary of the museum of Japanese military sex slavery in Gwangju-si, Gyeonggi Province.
Kasai at the event read out a message from JCP Chair Shii Kazuo.
Shii in the message pointed out, “An early settlement of the comfort women issue is urgently needed considering their age.” He also said that the Japanese government should accept the South Korean government’s request to hold bilateral talks over the issue based on the 1965 Japan-South Korea Agreement on the Settlement of Problems Concerning Property and Claims and on Economic Co-operation.
The JCP chair added that amid growing concern in the world over a right-wing shift in Japanese politics, the JCP will do its utmost to change the trajectory of politics in Japan to one that will be welcomed by Asian countries and the international community, “as a party which has a proud history of protesting against the wars of aggression and colonial rule in solidarity with patriots in Korean Peninsula since its foundation 91 years ago.”
Around 300 people from South Korea and Japan participated in the ceremony. Kasai renewed his ties of solidarity and friendship with 10 former comfort women who he met last October during his visit to the House of Sharing. The JCP representative also met with South Korean parliamentarians and agreed to work together with them to settle the wartime sex slavery issue.
Past related article
> JCP Kasai meets ex-‘comfort women’ in Korea [October 20, 2012]
Kasai at the event read out a message from JCP Chair Shii Kazuo.
Shii in the message pointed out, “An early settlement of the comfort women issue is urgently needed considering their age.” He also said that the Japanese government should accept the South Korean government’s request to hold bilateral talks over the issue based on the 1965 Japan-South Korea Agreement on the Settlement of Problems Concerning Property and Claims and on Economic Co-operation.
The JCP chair added that amid growing concern in the world over a right-wing shift in Japanese politics, the JCP will do its utmost to change the trajectory of politics in Japan to one that will be welcomed by Asian countries and the international community, “as a party which has a proud history of protesting against the wars of aggression and colonial rule in solidarity with patriots in Korean Peninsula since its foundation 91 years ago.”
Around 300 people from South Korea and Japan participated in the ceremony. Kasai renewed his ties of solidarity and friendship with 10 former comfort women who he met last October during his visit to the House of Sharing. The JCP representative also met with South Korean parliamentarians and agreed to work together with them to settle the wartime sex slavery issue.
Past related article
> JCP Kasai meets ex-‘comfort women’ in Korea [October 20, 2012]
