[국제]U.S. law student asks the White House to apologize for the Japanese Prime Minister’s comfort women

Asian students attending 15 US law schools including Harvard University urged the White House to engage in the comfort women issue prior to Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s visit to the United States.

Harvard University’s Asia-Pacific Law School Student Association said it sent a letter to the White House asking President Biden to raise the comfort women issue at the US-Japan summit on the 6th local time.

In this letter, accompanied by student associations from 14 universities including Columbia, Stanford, and Yale, students asked President Biden to “encourage Prime Minister Suga to apologize completely and clearly to the victims of comfort women.”

They explained that the reason why the comfort women issue should become an agenda at the US-Japan summit is “The attempt to close the issue of the disappearance of the dignity and justice of the comfort women victims only deepens the distrust between South Korea and Japan, the most important US alliance in Asia.”

He pointed out, “Only when the comfort women issue is completely resolved centering on victims, relations between the three countries can develop and the US policy in Asia can be successful.”

They also insisted that the Japanese Prime Minister should apologize to the international media for the victims of comfort women, in addition to expressing a clear apology through resolutions of the Japanese cabinet or parliament, not in the form of advocating a private foundation as in the past.

Along with this, they demanded that the ongoing history distortion and foreign campaigns for the removal of the girl statue should be stopped with funding from the Japanese government.

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