Christians in South Korea, Japan, and elsewhere, led mostly by women, joined on 14 December to mark the 1,000th Wednesday demonstration in Seoul demanding dignity and justice for victims of the Japanese military’s sexual slavery during the Second World War.
In Seoul, about 2,000 people participated in the weekly demonstration in front of the Japanese embassy, demanding Japan’s official apology and reparations to the victims, the so-called “comfort women.” Similar demonstrations reportedly took place in 27 other places in South Korea.
The demonstration’s organizer, the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan–led by a female Christian minister, Rev. Han Kukyom, and Yoon Mee-hyang–urged the Japanese government to “stand up for the solution of the problem.” Among the council’s founding member organizations is Korean Church Women United.
The committee on the equality of both sexes of the Seoul-based National Council of Churches in Korea released a 14 December statement urging the Japanese government to “implement a thorough investigation of the truth [of the problem],” calling for its “official apology and legal reparations” and demanding it “acknowledge its war responsibility in the past and make every effort for peace.”
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