The foreign ministers of Japan and South Korea say an agreement has been reached over the long-standing issue of comfort women, the term used to describe sex slaves used by the Japanese military during World War II.
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said his government would contribute one billion yen ($8.3 million) to a fund help those who suffered.
South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se said that as long as Tokyo sticks to its side of the deal, Seoul will consider the issue “irreversibly” resolved.
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