Japan court orders government to disclose treaty with Korea on sex slavery

[JURIST] The Tokyo District Court [official website, in Japanese] ruled Wednesday that the Japanese government must disclose part of a 1965 treaty between Japan and South Korea regarding sexual slavery employed by Japan during wartime. The District Court ruled in favor [Korea Herald report] of 11 Japanese and Korean activists representing the descendants of enslaved sex workers known as comfort women [AI backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. Although Japan has insisted that the 1965 treaty established that South Korea would not...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2012/10/japan-court-orders-government-to-disclose-treaty-with-korea-on-sexual-slavery.php

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