An official from the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Wednesday said the issue of comfort women is not expected to be raised during President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr.'s working visit to Japan next week.
An official from the Department of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday said the issue of comfort women is not expected to be raised during President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.'s working visit to Japan next week.
"All war-related claims are deemed to have been settled by our 1956 reparations agreement with Japan," he added. A number of Filipino women were forced into prostitution and sexual slavery by Japanese troops during World War II.was first made public when three Korean women came out during the Asian Conference on Traffic in Women in December 1991 to recount how they were made sex slaves of the Japanese Imperial Army in World War II.
The lawsuits were based on the provisions of the 1907 Hague Treaty protecting civilians in military-occupied territories and both Japanese and Philippine laws.Meanwhile, in a separate statement, the Lila Filipina urged Japan to acknowledge its war crimes against Asian nations and take necessary measures toward a "fair and long overdue resolution" of the comfort women issue.
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