Japan rejects the opinion of a committee of the UN criticized China for not establishing "effective compensation" for women victims of sexual exploitation at the hands of the Japanese army during World War II in a recent agreement with South Korea.
The Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, regretted that the conclusions of the UN Committee "did not accurately reflect" the content of the agreement with Seoul and recalled it was received positively by the international community.
On December 28 it announced that Tokyo will contribute about $ 8.8 million to compensate Korean women who were victims of sexual exploitation by the imperial troops.
An estimated 200,000 women, mainly in China and the Korean peninsula, were forced to provide sexual services to Japanese soldiers from the thirties of the last century and especially in the final stages of World War II, completed in 1945.
"Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, United States, United Kingdom and many other countries have received positively the bilateral agreement," he said Kishida, who considered that the comments of the panel "far from the international response" which received the pact.
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women considered the UN on Monday, "the lack of effective remedies for victims" in the December agreement.
In his concluding remarks, the panel also regretted that Tokyo did not take into account previous recommendations of the committee itself including, for example, the prosecution of the military responsible for these networks of forced prostitution.