Regarding the comfort women issue, Prime Minister Suga said that he could not accept the ruling that the district court in Seoul ordered the Japanese government to compensate the women of the former comfort women. He urged him to take steps to correct the violation of international law.
In a trial in which 12 former Korean comfort women were seeking damages from the Japanese government for being "mentally distressed," a district court in Seoul told the Japanese government that each plaintiff was in Japanese yen. I handed down a judgment ordering payment of about 9.5 million yen.
Regarding this, Prime Minister Suga told reporters at the Prime Minister's Office on the evening of the 8th, "Under international law, sovereign states are not subject to the jurisdiction of other countries. Under such circumstances, this lawsuit was dismissed. I think it should be done. "
In addition, "The comfort women issue has been completely and finally resolved in the 1965 Japan-Korea Claims Agreement, so I strongly urge the Korean government to take measures to correct violations of international law. Is absolutely unacceptable for such a ruling. "
In addition, while the reporters asked, "It is expected that Japan-South Korea relations will cool down, but how do you deal with it?", Prime Minister Suga said, "First, this proceeding should be dismissed. It will start. "