After diplomatic relations, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe resigned after leaving the worst relations between Korea and Japan.
In an interview with the Yomiuri Shimbun reported on the 23rd, Former Prime Minister Abe discussed the agreement on the comfort women issue of the Japanese military in December 2015 between the foreign ministers of Korea and Japan. "There are still various media wars unfolding due to historical issues, but they are trying to cut down Japan. I think things have become impossible.”
He commented, “In 2015 (the Japanese military comfort women issue), we made a final and irreversible settlement agreement with Korea and received high praise from the international community.”
There are a number of issues related to the comfort women issue of the Japanese military, but Abe emphasized the perception that the victims were'completely resolved', not the human rights violations or pains they suffered.
In an interview looking back over the entire tenure, the issue of comfort women in the Japanese military was reaffirmed in relation to Korea-Japan relations.
In 1997, when a re-elected congressman, Abe claimed that the mobilization of comfort women by the Japanese military was compulsory, he led a meeting of lawmakers to raise questions about narratives in Japanese junior high school textbooks, leading the right-wing view of Japan's history.
Regarding Sino-Japanese relations, he visited Yasukuni Shrine in December 2013 and was evaluated as'the worst since the normalization of diplomatic relations', but from the standpoint of'strategic reciprocal relations', he repeatedly held talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping and normalized the relations between Japan and China. He said in an interview that he had recovered to orbit.
Former Prime Minister Abe evaluated US President Donald Trump as "a person who listens to very different people, unlike the image," and commented that "because he was honest, he had a lot of discussions."
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