▲ A Japanese newspaper reporting the news of the investigation


As the prosecution launched an investigation into the allegations of accounting fraud by the Justice and Memory Association (Juie Yeon Yeon), the Japanese media are paying attention to the impact this event will have on Japan-Japan relations.

Major Japanese newspapers reported on the 21st the fact that the prosecution searched for the office of Justice and the suspicions surrounding Jeongyeon.

In the process that the agreement between the ROK and the ROK comfort women was denied in Korea, the role of Jeong Yeon played a large role, and it is an atmosphere that looks at the possibility that the investigation will affect the ROK-Japan relationship.

The Yomiuri Shimbun, the most conservative in Japan, reported on the 21st that former chairman Yoon Mi-hyang, Jeong Yeon Yeon, was elected as a proportional representative for the left-wing ruling party in the parliamentary election.

The newspaper analyzed that it seemed to be the focus of prosecutors' investigation as to whether Yun Dang-in was satisfied with the funds of Jeong-Yeon Yun. Even President Moon Jae-in, who has been doing it, cannot avoid the blow. ”

The Tokyo Newspaper introduced that Mr. Yoon was a strong critic of the agreement on the Japanese comfort women issue between South Korea's Foreign Minister at the time of Yoon Byung-se and Japanese Foreign Minister at the time of Fumio Kishida in December 2015. "There is a possibility that it will affect the regime's policy toward Japan as much as it is accepted and effectively destroyed."

Professor Kobe University of Japan, Kimura Gan, an expert on the Korean peninsula, commented on the recent Asahi Shimbun, saying that "it is only a matter surrounding the operation of Jeong-Yeon Yeon" and that in the short term, it is better not to think that this affects the relationship between Japan and Korea. Has revealed.

He said, "For example, even if the problem of money management becomes clear, this does not change the status of the comfort women issue in Korean society." I don't know if it will be a situation led by 'party' such as survivors, ”he added.

In Japan, the spread of controversy surrounding Jeong-Yeon Yeon is also triggered by an attempt to cut down on the movement itself to tackle the Japanese comfort women issue.

The Sankei Shimbun, which has shown a far-right perspective in historical matters, said in an editorial format editorial titled 'Stop the anti-Japanese rally and demolish the (Girl) Prize,' and listen to criticism and promptly demolish the comforting symbol of the hatred of Japan (Peace of Peace). I wish I could do it. "

(Photo = Yonhap News)