Japanese and South Korean officials on Tuesday reaffirmed their commitment to setting up a ¥1 billion fund to assist former "comfort women."
The girls and young women forced to work in wartime Imperial military brothels are now elderly and in dwindling numbers.
Kimihiro Ishikane, director-general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau at the Foreign Ministry, met with his South Korean counterpart, Chung Byung-won, director-general for Northeast Asian affairs at the South Korean Foreign Ministry, to discuss progress.
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